History Main / AcceptableEthnicTargets

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->'''He:''' Did you hear about the Sumerian?\\
'''She:''' No, what about the Sumerian?\\
'''He:''' He was extremely stupid! Ha ha ha!
-->-- ''Creator/DaveBarry's Greatest Hits'', telling the oldest known ethnic joke

A subset of AcceptableTargets. Remember that these aren't always ethnic in the literal sense we're used to -- they just refer to groups who are targeted for their physical appearance or for having inborn traits that they can't really change. Foreign/unusual accents and dialects are also typically considered speech impediments, and therefore become subjects of mockery much like AcceptableHardLuckTargets. See also FunnyForeigner.
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[[folder:Ethnic groups in the United States]]

'''Asian Americans'''

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* Manager turned valet Jade Chung is one of professional wrestling's most infamous {{butt monkey}}s. She tried her hand at being a wrestler but mainly became a measuring stick for how much anyone else who wanted to be one [[{{jobber}} was progressing]], with Wrestling/CandiceLeRae in particular using Chung as a stepping stone to a serious career. However things started turning around for her, in a way, during her stint in Wrestling/RingOfHonor's incarnation of The Embassy, where her demotion from manager to valet and valet to footstool of Jimmy Rave gave her a HeelFaceTurn as Wrestling/PrinceNana's abuse was so over the top people couldn't help but [[TheWoobie sympethesize with her]].
* ROH also takes note of the "ignored" aspect of this trope, usually trying to give plenty of promotion to Wrestling/JimmyWangYang, Karen Q and the like, although it is {{played for laughs}} in the [[ButtMonkey case]] of referee Pat Tanaka. Steve Corino has to be frequently reminded Tanaka is a Boston native who speaks no Japenese, and speaks fluent English for that matter. Julius Smokes also went on a left field Chinese food rant during a promo on (Korean)Mia Yim's ROH origins.

'''WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant males'''

[[AC:{{Advertising}}]]
* Creator/AdamCarolla has joked that burglars in home invasion alarm commercials are always white.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* Perhaps the ultimate shot at [=WASPs=] was ''Film/{{Caddyshack}}'', in the characters of the Lutheran Bishop Pickering and the WASP's WASP, Judge Smails, portrayed as only Ted Knight can.
* The villainous Mayor in Music/MichaelJackson's ''[[Film/MichaelJacksonsGhosts Ghosts]]'' short film, a fat, bigoted white man who picks on the mysterious Maestro for being different (i.e., being Michael Jackson), is a good example of this, and played more for drama than jokes. Jackson played both roles, the Mayor under heavy makeup.
* Creator/JamesSpader has played a lot of privileged [=WASPy=] villains, particularly in his youth, e.g. ''Film/PrettyInPink''.
* This trope is subverted in ''Film/LakeviewTerrace'' wherein Creator/SamuelLJackson plays a racist crooked black cop, terrorizing a suburban interracial family.

[[AC: Music]]
* Due to being a white battle-rapper, Music/{{Eminem}} faced many jokes from his black opponents about his race. He couldn't shoot back with racist comments about black people, resulting in a strategy of turning their insults about white life into [[SelfDeprecation ridiculous, uncool boasts]]. His [[AlterEgoActing Slim Shady]] persona was based on the idea of being the depraved, sociopathic id of white America, exaggerating his NerdyNasalness, rapping in something more like a general Midwestern accent rather than his own Detroit one, and bleaching his hair to look even whiter.
** Note that, while technically a WASP, Eminem came from a poor trailer-trash background, which is a significant part of his persona. However, he also played with the perceptions of him being part of a white middle-class in his early career. The music video for "Just Don't Give A Fuck" has him antagonising people in a 1950s StepfordSuburbia, and he's shown as the suburban star of a [[SubvertedKidsShow midcentury sitcom]] in the beginning of the music video for "My Name Is", along with dressing as various other wealthy white characters like Johnny Carson and Bill Clinton. On ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'', "My Fault" casts him as a predatory university student, worried that he's got to get the trailer-trash girl he's overdosed with mushrooms back to normal before the end of Spring Break.
** The skit in the middle of "Criminal" parodies racist white social mores when Slim is sent into a bank he and his gang are robbing (implicitly because his white skin will draw less attention). Slim's a deranged killer, so he murders the cashier (against his instructions), but he's white so he makes sure to cheerfully say "thank you!" in the style of a checkout Karen. Similarly, the skit in the video for "Forgot About Dre" replacing the [[{{Metaphorgotten}} pataphor verse]] shows Slim getting to speak as a witness on an act of arson he obviously committed, due to the people around him assuming him to be a harmless young white lad. (He and Music/DrDre do get arrested later in the video, though, and a sequel to the "Criminal" skit on ''The Marshall Mathers LP II'' results in Slim getting killed.)
** In "Just Don't Give A Fuck", he ends a list of disses to other white rappers with a joke about how, as a white person, he doesn't use spices in his food:
--->I'm '''nicer than Pete''', but I'm on a search to crush a '''milkbone'''\\
I'm '''everlast'''in', I melt '''vanilla ice''' like silicone\\
I'm ill enough to just straight up diss you for no reason\\
I'm colder than '''snow''' season when it's 20 below freezin'\\
Flavor with no seasoning, this is the sneak preview

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' was notorious for this, with the anti-WASP male stereotype [[MilitaryBrat Tom Paris]], but also treating B'Elanna Torres' periodically breaking the limbs of male WASP underlings as a source of humor: beating up weaker people is allegedly funny, [[DoubleStandard so long as the weaker people are WASP males and the abusive figure is female]].
** Even if the latter is half alien.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' poked some mild fun at an Episcopalian couple who were ''very'' restrained in their emotions. To the point that the husband chides his wife for "making a scene" when she sniffled at a bad diagnosis for him.

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'''Irish-Americans'''

Cast as being in the seat of white privilege (which means, of course, that they're Catholic Celts who are considered [=WASPs=]), and still obsessed with their heritage and worse days that may or may not have existed. Ironically, this opens the door to the old Nash stereotypes like untenably large families, alcoholism, extreme conservatism, and elaborate wakes, since rather than even [[ModernMinstrelsy making fun of the stereotypes]], it's making fun of the self-serving reification of the stereotypes.

[[AC:{{Comic Books}}]]
* The works of Creator/GarthEnnis, who is '''Irish-Irish''', contain a number of vicious caricatures of Irish-Americans as drunken, ignorant buffoons who epitomise the worst stereotypes of Irish people while thinking they're celebrating their heritage, and irresponsibly support Irish Republican terrorism with no comprehension of the actual issues of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* There's also the scene in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'' where the town will accept every racial minority ''except'' the Irish. Admittedly, this is AnAesop about racism, but still...
** But they accept the Irish in the end, subverting the joke.
* A character in ''Film/TheCommitments'' explains that it is appropriate for an Irish band to play Soul Music, because the Irish are "the Blacks of Europe".

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* In the short lived Canadian sitcom ''[=InSecurity=]'', Canadian agents are fighting an Irish terrorist group. Which leads to an out numbered gun standoff which leads to this exchange.
--> '''Alex''' Hey guys, What do you want to hurt the queen for, uh? She's so witty and sweet. She's got that great wave.
-->'''N'udu''' And a body that just won't quit. At least we're go down doing what we love.
-->'''Alex''' Protecting the queen.
-->'''N'udu''' Killing the Irish.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* Vince [=McMahon=] Sr. was famous for insisting on having a representative for every ethnic group in New York City. Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Jr. was famous for offending every ethnic group in New York City ''except'' the Irish. However, they finally got their "turn" with the introduction of Wrestling/{{Hornswoggle}}, who had the truly unique [[TheGimmick gimmick]] of being [=McMahon=]'s bastard leprechaun son granted the ability to speak English through Santa Clause. This was later {{retcon}}ned however into Hornswoggle being Fin Finlay's bastard son, bringing his "Irish ''American''" roots into question.

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] in ''VideoGame/WatchDogs''. The main antagonists of the game are the [[TheIrishMob predominantly Irish Chicago South Club]] led by [[EvilOldFolks Dermot "Lucky" Quinn]], who do not control the Windy City but are responsible for the large human trafficking auction since 2003. On the other hand, the main protagonist Aiden Pearce is an Ulster/Northern Irish immigrant living in America.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has made a few jokes based on the Irish being OnceAcceptableTargets. It's tough to think of Bart's revelation that Whacking Day was originally "an excuse to beat up the Irish" being done with most other groups.
-->'''Old Irishman''': 'Tis true. I took many a lump, but 'twas all in good fun.
-->'''Grandpa''': Last time those meteors came we thought the sky was on fire. Naturally we blamed it on the Irish. We hung more than a few.
-->'''Kent Brockman:''' All this drinking, violence, destruction of property... are these the things that we think of when we think of the Irish?
-->'''Milhouse:''' Look out Itchy, he's Irish!
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' nonstop, it takes every single Irish stereotype and [[ExaggeratedTrope and exaggerates them]].

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'''Hispanics and/or Latinos'''

This group has become an increasingly unacceptable target in the United States due to the growing amount of immigration (and therefore political votes and purchasing power) of these people. They are usually portrayed as being incredibly poor and will usually be sorted in the same class stereotypes as some African-American groups resulting in many conflicts (ex. gangs). This is often portrayed in dramas dealing with high schools in urban high crime areas such as ''Film/DangerousMinds''. They're about the second most discussed ethnicity when it comes to things like educational achievement and economic mobility, right after black people but before Asians.

[[AC:{{Comedy}}]]
* Creator/JeffDunham's puppet act includes Jose Jalapeno, an exaggerated Mexican stereotype that is an anthropomorphic Jalapeno on a stick.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* Toyed with but ultimately subverted in the 1999 film ''Film/{{Bowfinger}}''. Bobby Bowfinger (Creator/SteveMartin) gets his film crew by hustling illegal Mexican immigrants into the back of his van. By the end of the movie, the men have learned all about film-making and are now respected and highly successful professionals.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Exception: Creator/DisneyChannel Programming. New shows and movies on the Disney Channel have come out with more Hispanic leads, mostly female, and are portrayed positively without reference or offense to their stereotypes. Ex. ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Gabriella from the ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' films, anything starring Music/DemiLovato.
* The show "Devious Maids", starring Sophia Vergara among others, shows the housekeepers as more than just passive and hardworking by having them "stick it to the (rich wo)man" by seducing and sleeping with their husbands. The show has received mixed reviews from the Hispanic community, with some people saying that the characters are more complex than the common housekeeper and others arguing that being shown as seductive and adulterous isn't exactly the best alternative even if we're supposed to sympathize with them.

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* Downplayed with La Familia stable in westside Xtreme wrestling. While they were an out of the blue and fairly stereotypical "Latino" group, it turned out that under the {{mask|edLuchador}}s none of them actually were Latino.
* The Mexicools were not this as individuals. Super Crazy, Wrestling/{{Pscicosis}} and Juventud Guerrera are all fan favorites with long successful careers. But their repackaging for the group involved turning them into [[WrestlingDoesntPay wrestling landscapers]] who ride to the ring on lawn mowers while promising a revolution that will never come.
* LAX in Wrestling/{{TNA}} were supposed to be an evil group of Latinos. [[Wrestling/NelsonErazo Homicide]] went so far as to kidnap a "snowflake"(lilly white interviewer Lauren) for not "liking Latinos" enough. Thing is, fans thought a group representing Latin Americans across the nations was ''cool'', so they became [[DesignatedHero faces by default]]. TNA would try again with "Mexican America", an group of Mexican supremacists who wanted to launch {{a Nazi|byanyothername}} style takeover of the United States Of America(or at least Florida) while spouting rhetoric about the boarder crossing them first and superiority of their race. There was even {{cross|over}} promotion with WWC where Mexican America invaded the promotion to fight a two front war because WWC was so full of Puerto Ricans to beat up.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In comedy, Hispanics are often portrayed as willing to work low-paying jobs. Many episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' feature Hispanic men speaking English in a slow-witted lazy kind of matter. In the episode "D-Yikes" a group of Hispanic men are recruited for several jobs from spying to substitute teaching. {{Subverted}} when they have the day laborers competently teaching long division, and the kids admit that the workers are teaching them more that their actual teacher would have. In another episode a sleeping Mexican janitor is mistaken for a wax sculpture while he is sleeping in a room displaying wax figures of people from different ethnicities portraying their stereotypes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bordertown}}'' has a bunch of honest and hardworking Hispanic immigrants vs. the chubby white guy who mistrusts immigrants. The rest of the town, whether they support immigration or not, tend to rush to appeal to a broader market to cash in on the growing immigrant population.

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'''Native Americans'''

Generally portrayed as either AlwaysMale sex objects, slow talking [[MagicalNativeAmerican wise mystics in tune with the earth]] who can only speak in broken language, or [[CorruptCorporateExecutive greedy]] [[NativeAmericanCasino casino owners]]. They also like to assert themselves as the true Americans and call other Americans intruders.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* Traditionally this trope was avoided like the plague in professional wrestling for fear of causing riots. Amerindians would always be {{face}}s, even when actively protesting in towns for publicity stunts or in feuds with cowboys(which would usually be GoodVersusGood). Apache Bull Ramos had to push very hard to work an evil Indian gimmick by promising to quit the business if it didn't work. Of course it did, Ramos being a worker with very good timing helping his cause.
* WWE ran an angle where Wrestling/{{Tatanka}} became a vengeful ghost warrior against the [[MisplacedRetribution completely]] blameless Wrestling/BobbyLashley and against WWE officials(who were merely [[HanlonsRazor incompetent rather than outright malicious]]) for their discrimination against him. The problem was fans thought this was "badass" and [[DracoInLeatherPants cheered him]]. It doesn't help that Tatanka is a Lumbee, which are one of the USA's most discriminated tribes by virtue of the government refusing to acknowledge their existence[[note]]they tend to get lumped in with "Blacks" due to having sort of dark skin and a tendency for curly hair. Apparently there is no way a group of people with such features could get to the Americas before European colonists.[[/note]]
* Arrow Club, one of many {{gang|bangers}}ster themed {{power stable}}s, in this case based on [[RippedFromTheHeadlines The Wild Boys]], and their adeptness for causing ''just'' enough mayhem ''not'' to get charges that would result in being sent to prison, or [[LighterAndSofter suspension from wrestling promotions in this case]].

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'''Italian Americans'''

Old stereotypes would have them as either [[TheMafia mobsters]] or [[MafiaPrincess the wives/daughters of mobsters]]. These stereotypes still crop up from time to time, but they've mostly faded out... only to be replaced by the stereotype of the "guido" in the last few years. Thanks to Creator/{{MTV}}'s ''Series/JerseyShore'', having an Italian surname is an easy way for people to view you as a drunken, hard-partying, orange-skinned [[{{Jerkass}} douchebag]]. If you're male, it's assumed that you use steroids, and if you're female, it's assumed that you're [[ReallyGetsAround a slut]]. But hey, [[FlawlessToken at least they make some great food]].

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian-American_television_characters list of Italian-American TV characters]] and their descriptions on Wikipedia features an overwhelming number of entries concerning [[TheMafia a particular occupation]]. The fact that most of the rest of the entries are blue-collar jobs doesn't exactly boast great representation, either.

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* In Wrestling/{{ECW}} the joke about the FBI(Full Blooded Italians) was that for all of their posturing, most of them actually were not and some of them probably were not even Italian at all. This simple joke was far too complex for WWE however, who basically turned them into Italian GangBangers with mafioso delusions. Johnny The Bull and Nunzio did become baby faces when the WWE version inevitably split up but Chuck Palumbo just veered harder into gangsterism by becoming a 1% biker gang banger hybrid.
* WCW turned Sweet Destiney into Little Jeanne and ECW Angel Orsini into the Prodigette, which were basically mafia princesses turned muscle for hier after descending to the independent circuit.
* Ohio Valley Wrestling had "The Jersey Jerks" and "The Shore" {{power stable}}s years before the MTV television show that nonetheless played on the same orange tanning douchebag stereotype of Italians. Similar to the ECW group, it was also questionable ''how'' Italian any of the members actually were.
* Ring Of Honor had the Orange Tanning God's Gift To Women In His Own Mind Only QT Marshall, from Newark New Jersey. However, accusations of steroids were avoided with Cliff Compton there for comparison.
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[[folder:Ethnic groups and nationalities in Europe]]
'''UsefulNotes/{{Romani}}''' A.K.A. "Gypsies".

They're backward, colorfully dressed nomads with funny accents. They're mysterious if they aren't outright [[RoguishRomani tricksters and thieves]]. Often able to use {{magic|alRomani}} of some kind. Little do most people know that they're continuing the ancient European tradition of discriminating against the Roma, which was at its height around the Holocaust (which the Roma were victims of).

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%%* Creator/BradPitt's fighting gypsy in ''Film/{{Snatch}}''. Not actually a Roma, but an Irish Traveller.
%%* A very unfortunate portrayal of Roma in ''See No Evil'' (aka ''Blind Terror'').

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
%%* Frex in Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Thinner}}''.
* A big part of the backstory of the ''Literature/CalLeandros'' books includes the Leandros brothers' Roma heritage. Their mother was an abusive and alcoholic monster (metaphorically speaking), none of which is directly blamed on her being Roma, but it doesn't help that she engaged in a lifestyle that matches the worst of the anti-Roma stereotype (fortune-teller, scam artist, thief and jailbird). Worse are the Sarzo clan and their witch of a matriarch, Abelia-Roo (especially in the fifth book). We're told that, of all of human society, only the Roma are aware as a society of the non-human inhabitants in that particular universe.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Discrimination against Travellers was the point of ''Series/TheRiches''.
* ''Big Fat Gypsy Weddings'' and its USA counterpart ''My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding'' came under harsh fire from Romani groups for claims the gypsies shown on screen were really Irish, and misrepresenting Romani in general, not that their efforts stopped either show.(After all, "gypsy" gets thrown at Irish travelers just as often as Romani)

[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* In the Music/HilaryDuff song "Gypsy Woman", "gypsy" is the adjective used to describe the woman who her father left her mother for. Given that the woman was not Roma, the reasons are unclear though, possibly because of her job as a flight attendant (referencing the second "nomad" stereotype), or because of a "gypsy curse." What makes this especially insensitive is the WWII reference in the beginning of the song, the Roma being heavily persecuted by the Nazis during the war.
** Some parts of the song reference stereotypes about Roma people:
--> "She can rob you blind with just one look, from those eyes
--> Out of all the thieves that trained her, none of them could tame her."
* Music/{{Shakira}}'s song ''Gypsy'', but only in the English version with lyrics like "I might steal your clothes and wear them if they fit me." The original Spanish version ''Gitana'' just paints Roma as being friendly and free-spirited people.
* Music/{{Cher}}'s "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves". It's not clear if the narrator is ''actually'' Roma or not; the title references what "the people of the town" call her and her family ... but either way illustrates that the stereotype exists.

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* Priscilla Kelly, one of the stars of the aforementioned ''My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding'' entered the professional wrestling business with her baggage from the show but was otherwise portrayed as an inquisitive, sexually curious and ambitious woman who fell in with some [[PowerStable bad crowds]]. However, in EVOLVE she basically became a [[SuccubiAndIncubi succubus]] out to [[TheCorrupter control]] and [[GayBravado mo]]le[[AllWomenAreLustful st]] anything that moves, which once again had people questioning if that was really the impression people should be getting. Her functional HeelFaceTurn in SHINE(she was always "[[DesignatedHero supposed]]" to be a face in that promotion) sought to address that she wasn't trying to make Romani or any other race look bad.

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'''Slavs, especially the Russians'''

Because of the Soviet Union, a little thing called the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, and a good deal of old Czarist Russia, the peoples of Eastern Europe are widely mocked or cast as villains in action films because of the Cold War. Often portrayed as outwardly cold or immoral for their part in the former Soviet Union.

It's still relatively common to see portrayals of non-Russian Slavs, particularly the Balkan Slavs as violent, ruthless, uncultured thugs and savages -- see BalkanBastard. They may also be depicted as cunning tricksters who might outwardly accept (Western) civilization, but actually just exploit it for their own gains (e.g. a mock democracy run by a clique of corrupt generals).

Interestingly enough, despite the fact that most Slavic countries are significantly poorer than their West European neighbors and their history of being sold as slaves[[note]]"Slav" was actually the origin of the word "slave".[[/note]] or discriminated against in some of the most egregious ways known to mankind, having them portrayed in an unfavorable (or rather "traditional") light very rarely results in backlash similar in any way to that whenever the offended party is of not-White and/or not-Christian origins. It should come as no surprise then that whenever a Western artist is in need of a villainous character with at least somewhat exotic background but isn't willing to risk being called out on racism or another prejudice, casting a Slav in the role is pretty much their safest bet.

See {{Ruritania}} for more details.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]cold war tv tropes
* During the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, it was hard to find a promotion that didn't have an evil Russian or three preaching about the perfection of Soviet Communism. Most of these were inspired by the top "Russians" of the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance Wrestling/IvanKoloff, Wrestling/NikitaKoloff and [[Wrestling/BarryDarsow Krusher Khrushchev]], who were World Tag Team Champions by way of the [[PowerTrio Freebird Rule]] and famous for their feud with Wrestling/TheRoadWarriors. They made a HeelFaceTurn after Nikita Koloff's rival Wrestling/MagnumTA was [[AntagonistInMourning injured in a traffic accident]] but that just opened the door for bigger, eviler communists to feud with them.
* Subverted by "Legit" Leyla Hirsch, [[WrestlingDoesntPay a wrestling goodwill ambassador of Russian culture]], but her [[{{Foil}} arch rival]] Masha Slammovich more than makes up for it, by pretending whichever country she's passing through doesn't exist, for example speaking English with a northern California accent but [[BadLiar insisting]] she had no love for USA until getting stuck in the country during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic.

[[AC: VideoGames]]
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' gives us Heavy weapons guy; a huge, loud berserker who's been described as 'a big shaved bear that hates people.' He's… a little unhinged, with the habit of [[CompanionCube talking to inanimate objects]] and [[ICallItVera naming]] his monstrous weapons. To be fair, all the characters in [=TF2=] are outwardly dysfunctional and fill stereotypes of some sort or another, revolving around RuleOfFunny. Interestingly, Heavy is made to sound a lot more intelligent in the Russian dubs, and he is said to have a [=PhD=] in Russian literature, which implies he may not be stupid at all, [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue he just doesn't speak very good English]], which is also implied by his bio.

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'''The French'''

Portrayed as [[FrenchJerk snooty, arrogant, drinking too much wine, and having bad hygiene.]] Will [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys surrender at the drop of a hat.]] Unfortunately for Francophobes, after the Paris terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015 (and to a lesser extent the ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting earlier that year), this may be heading for {{Once Acceptable Target|s}} territory. The burning of Notre Dame in Paris in April 2019 may have made the negative stereotyping even less acceptable.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* Initially this was the case with "The World's Ugliest Man" French Angel. He became [[EnsembleDarkhorse such an attraction]] however that "[[FountainOfExpies Angel]]" gimmicks [[FollowTheLeader started to be used for men of all sorts of different ethnicities]] and his appearance became more accurately attributed to acromegaly than Frenchness.
* Colonel Ninotchka's HeelFaceTurn in Wrestling/{{GLOW}} involved defecting from the Soviet Union and settling in France. The audience treated this as a face turn anyway but everyone else on the show all but called her a smelly frog.

[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'': Pierre is a sleazy French-accented CowardlyBoss who ambushes Lara several times.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'': Meta {{Deconstruction}}; it is due to the writing staff's own anti-French bias that the French stereotyping in this show, especially the HistoricalVillainUpgrade of Napoleon Bonaparte, is so bad that it was panned in French-speaking countries.

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'''Italians'''

In older times, when British society was considered (by Brits, mostly) to be the established cultural norm, the portrayal of Italians in literature carried a backward, if not criminal connotation with them. Italians appearing in British literature prior to (and occasionally after) the 1900s were frequently either the villain of the piece or in some way associated with them.
Today, stereotypes of Italians come in two main flavors. Often, they are portrayed as [[HairTriggerTemper angry]], [[AngryFistShake violent]], and [[BookDumb not bright]], possibly with some connection to [[TheMafia the mob]]. If they're portrayed in a *slightly* more positive light, they are [[SharpDressedMan fashionable]], [[LatinLover suave]], and [[ReallyGetsAround ready to make moves]] on [[SerialHomewrecker someone's romantic partner]]. Regardless of the flavor encountered, these characters are usually loud and extroverted, use [[ItaliansTalkWithHands wild hand gestures]], and [[FacialProfiling sport a mustache]] more often than not.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Creator/AnnRadcliffe built her career upon portraying Italians as less-than-savory characters. And all because they had the nerve to be something other than White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
* In fact, a *lot* of Gothic fiction depicts Italians as "other," going all the way back to Horace Walpole's ''Literature/{{The Castle of Otranto}}'', which Walpole originally claimed to be an Italian tale he'd found and translated... just in case his readership didn't like the novel he wrote.

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'''Germans'''

World War II ended over seventy years ago, but the occasional German or German-American is portrayed with [[AllGermansAreNazis Nazi-esque]] (or even [[{{Kaiserreich}} Imperial Prussian-style]]) mannerisms, if not portrayed as an outright villain.

[[AC:Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In the story Recap/AsterixAndTheGoths the Goths (Germans) are depicted as villains. The story was drawn in the early 1960s, when anti-German sentiments were still vivid in Europe. Albert Uderzo, creator of the comic strip, [[CreatorBacklash has expressed regret over these portrayals]] and in later stories the Germans are depicted in a far more sympathetic light.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* Hans Gruber in ''Film/DieHard'' is a gleeful send-up of cruel-but-effete Nazi stereotypes (played by an Englishman, obviously) despite that he's a former German communist terrorist (i.e. the Nazis deadly enemies).
* Wolfe Messer in ''Cannonball'' plays so many German clichés so straight that it seems to be okay to blow him up and make him the first character killed in that movie.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Often seen as a meta-example, wherein a character portrayed as a JerkAss mistreats Germans: [[Recap/FawltyTowersS1E6TheGermans don't mention]] [[IgnoreTheDisability the war!]]
* ''Series/AlloAllo'', although it mixed its sadistic perverts with its bumbling but affable Germans.

[[AC:{{Meta}}]]
* See also GermanicDepressives, and the FlawlessToken version, GermanicEfficiency.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* While Wrestling/VonErichFamily wrestlers ultimately became better known as baby {{face}}s, they began with Fritz and Waldo Von Erich as "The Nazi Brothers".
* Hans Schmidt initially wrestled as a baby face in spite of World War II, probably because he was in fact a Canadian, but Boston promoter Paul Bowser correctly predicted they could make more money pushing him as an evil Nazi "Teuton Terror" even after the war had long been over in the 1950s.
* Before becoming [[Wrestling/TheMoondogs Moondog Fifi]], the blonde German Diane Von Hoffman worked a Nazi gimmick when turning pro. Even while not working as a Moondog she eventually "mellowed" into into simply hating "small" or "rookie" wrestlers, but not before taking the Nazi gimmick back into Germany!
* Hans Von Doring, a German who inexplicably hates men of the Caribbean and served as an EvilThanThou foreigner to the Dominicans who invaded CSP/WWC(Puerto Rico) before him.

[[AC: VideoGames]]
* Again, ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': the Medic is a [[MadDoctor overtly sadistic]] German doctor, coming from Stuttgart 'in an era where the Hippocratic Oath had been downgraded to an optional Hippocratic suggestion.' However, WordOfGod is that he was not a Nazi.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* All together now: ''[[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated!]]''
* Üter in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', who is Austrian.

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'''The British, especially the English'''

Anti-British and anti-English sentiment tends to be tied to UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire and its post-colonial legacy. [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Ireland]], France, Russia and [[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar Argentina]] have longer traditions of Anglophobia, but more recently the 2016 Brexit campaign and the UK's subsequent breakaway from the European Union in 2020 has enflamed some tensions within the continent. Once common within American media (owing to two wars in 1776 and 1812, and a period of cold relations in the early 1800s), it's [[DeadHorseTrope very much old hat nowadays]]; a 2017 poll by the BBC World Service found Americans have some of the strongest positive opinion towards the British of any nationality. [[MemeticMutation Online]] however, Brits have often been mocked for their vocabulary, dialect, [[BritishTeeth horrible-looking teeth]], and unappealing food.
[[EvilBrit They remain the go-to nationality for the clever and cultured supervillain though]].

* ''Creator/JulesVerne'':
** ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': The original plot revealed that Captain Nemo was a Pole whose family had been killed by the Russians. Verne's editor, not wishing to anger the Russian readership (as the countries were allied at the time), persuaded him to give him a different nationality, culminating in ''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland'' revealing Nemo was actually an Indian prince whose family was killed by the British, France and Britain deeming each other AcceptableTargets being a centuries-long tradition.
** ''Literature/InSearchOfTheCastaways'' has an odd one: while most of the cast are heroic Brits (and the Frenchman is the comic relief and ButtMonkey), Britain's education of the Australian natives leaves to be desired, teaching that ''the entire world'' belongs to them (America is still a colony governed by Lord Washington, and France a colony led by Lord Napoleon from the capital of Calais).

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'''The Scottish'''

Much like the Irish, they are portrayed as drunk and violent, with emphasis on {{violent|Glaswegian}}. Expect anyone from Scotland to use weird insults, insist on wearing kilts, play bagpipes, and to be very aggressive. Like their southern neighbor, they will sometimes appear in works set in the 1800s and 1900s as an EvilColonialist. If they're portrayed positively, expect them to be loud, and your typical ProudWarriorRaceGuy. And they will be depicted as being stingy misers who would rather die than pay a dime. Not to mention being [[ScotIreland mistaken for Irish]].

[[AC:Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}'': A character named Mic Mac Jampudding is the archetypical Scot. He walks around in kilt and is so stingy that it gets ludicrous. It doesn't help that people around him always cry out: "Oh that Scottish stingyness!" and that this comic is aimed at ''children''!

[[AC:Film]]
* Fat Bastard from the ''Film/AustinPowers'' sequels.
* Gutsy Smurf from ''Film/TheSmurfs''.

[[AC:Live Action TV]]
* The decidedly Scottish Amy Pond occasionally got some good-natured ribbing on ''Series/DoctorWho'', notably for her temper. Occasionally she'd bring it up herself; in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]", when Oswin suggested that her growing anger might be a side-effect of her being infected with Dalek nanogenes, she answered, "Well, somebody hasn't been to Scotland."
-->'''The Doctor''': You're Scottish, go fry something!

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* The Highlanders were once a fairly bogstandard TagTeam. Their gimmick was that they wore kilts. This was too subtle for WWE, who introduced them to the main roster audiences as immigrants who had never heard of modern plumbing and who tagged one another [[UseYourHead with headbutts]].
* Wrestling/{{Nikki|Cross}}Storm from Pippa L'vinn's Wrestling Factory fits the inflated ego stereotype, as she antagonizes ''everyone'' of every other ethnicity over Scotland's superiority. Downplayed in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} and its spinoffs, where she also antagonizes fellow Scots like Kay Lee Ray and Viper for [[NoTrueScotsman not being Scottish enough]]. L'Vinn herself has a bit of a Scottish accent, and is perhaps a dirtier heel than Storm, though prefers to be referred to as ''British''.

[[AC:Video Games]]
* YMMV, but one background in ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' was set in a Scottish Distillery, which prominently featured a kilt wearing Scot.
* Angus from the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' rip-off that is ''VideoGame/KasumiNinja''. Ironically he's one of the more memorable aspects of the game. Besides having a short temper and stereotypical clothing, one of his special attacks involves lifting up his kilt and ''shooting fireballs out of his crotch'' -- a new take on GroinAttack indeed.

[[AC:Western Animation]]
* The Scotsman, known only as The Scotsman, from ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Willie, though it is worth noting [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales the Scottish seem to love him]], and there's a debate there over whether he's from Aberdeen or Edinburgh.
* One WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short featured your stereotypical, kilt-wearing Scotsman.

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'''Belgians'''

The butt of many European jokes that involve idiocy. Quite often they are represented as being TooDumbToLive.

[[AC:Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/LetsKillAllTheBelgiansAChildsGuideToGenocide''. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, although in a subversion the comic is rather a mockery of [[EagleLand American jingoism]] and the author specifically picked Belgians as the "target" because he couldn't think of a more harmless group for the characters to be racist against.

[[AC:Film]]
* In the film '' Rien à déclarer'' one of the characters is a Belgian. He puts his country above anything else and tries to absolutely do anything so that he should not work with French.
* ''Film/InBruges'' references this trope. Ray, when asked if he knows any Belgian jokes, states that Belgium is only famous for chocolates and child molesters and that the chocolates were just so they could get to the kids.

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'''The Dutch'''

They are some of the most stingy persons you will ever encounter. Expect them also to be environmental activists, fanatical supporters of healthy food, preachy MoralGuardians etc. Also look out for all the wind mills in their country.

[[AC:Comics]]
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': In the story ''De Mollige Meivis'' a man expresses his glee that drinks are on the house. When Lambik says: "You're probably..." The man answers: "Dutch". Lambik then adds: "So I thought...", with an irritated look.

[[AC:Film]]
* The film ''Superagent Ranjid Rettet Die Welt'' is a particularly eggregorious example of this, the least of which is featuring a Dutch person as the main villain. Some notorious jokes include the Dutch professor at the beginning to order a bunch of students to eat healthy food, a bunch of wind mills everywhere and a WellIntentionedExtremist who wants the whole world to act like the Dutch.
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[[folder:Ethnic groups and nationalities in Asia]]
'''Arabs'''

Except, ironically, just after the 9/11 attack (then again it was sadly a case of swapping one stereotype [obnoxious and/or oil tycoons] for another [zealous terrorists]). Nowadays, the Arabian peninsula (and a lot of the land around it which is lumped in with it because it is A: Muslim (never mind what branch), and B: looks a bit sandy) seems to be a rich source of terrorists and people burning American flags. Ironically, before the 9/11 attacks, Arabs were still acceptable targets in a lot of Western media, being stereotyped as obnoxious ''nouveau riche'' oil sheikhs with appalling design taste -- for instance, this quote from [[Series/TopGearUK Jeremy Clarkson's]] ''Motorworld'': "The Arab is a bit flash -- he'll buy a Sierra Cosworth and replace the headlamps with chandeliers. He has absolutely no taste whatsoever." Even before that, they were stereotyped as thieves, plunderers, and rogues, and the phrase "You cheating Arab!" (now confined to period pieces and racist grandparents) was a British idiom for someone having an unreasonable run of good luck at a game of chance. The association of Muslims with terrorists started in the 1970s, and other bad news coming out of the Middle East (Khomeini, UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, the fatwa against Creator/SalmanRushdie,...) only made these ideas more widespread. Combine this with the rise of Muslim immigrants in Western countries around the same time and its becomes more clear why both the jokes themselves and the caution to make them have risen.

Jack Shaheen, who devoted his career to analyzing and criticizing the vilifying of Arabs in popular culture, wrote in ''The TV Arab'' (1984): "Television tends to perpetuate four basic myths about Arabs: they are all fabulously wealthy; they are barbaric and uncultured; they are sex maniacs with a penchant for white slavery; and they revel in acts of terrorism." In his works like ''Reel Bad Arabs'' (2006), Shaheen protested that Arabs are the last ethnic group that is socially acceptable to be cast as villains.

[[AC:{{Comedy}}]]
* Four words: ''[[Creator/JeffDunham Achmed the Dead Terrorist]]''. If it weren't for the fact that "Arab terrorists" were an acceptable target, he'd have been called out on that routine before [[SpotlightStealingSquad he let his acts become the Achmed the Dead Terrorist Show]].
* In the documentary ''Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World'', Muslim comedian Ahmed Ahmed recounted how he once went in to read for a stereotypical Arab terrorist role. Since his stand-up comedy career was starting to flourish, and because he considered the role an offensive stereotype, he decided he'd go in and treat the audition as a complete joke, completely mocking the role and the producers. Ahmed proceeded to read the part as the most crazed, screaming ethnically offensive Large Ham stereotype he could manage. [[SpringtimeForHitler The casting director loved it and promptly offered him the part.]] He wanted to say "no", but then saw [[MoneyDearBoy how much they were offering for a very little amount of work]].

[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* ''Comicbook/SteelgripStarkeyAndTheAllPurposePowerTool'' has a group of Middle Eastern terrorists (complete with head coverings) take over the United Nations building and threaten to destroy it.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''Film/TrueLies'', in which Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger battles a group of Arab terrorists who are plotting a nuclear attack. Made slightly less offensive because one of Arnold's anti-terror colleagues is an Arab-American chap named Faisil, who is portrayed as being a NiceGuy and occasional badass.
* The first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' film features Libyan terrorists who try to shoot the heroes. The "language" they speak in the film is [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign absolute nonsense]] and in no way resembles the languages actually spoken in Libya. The series doesn't only pick on "acceptable" targets. The first film also features stereotypical African American characters (Goldie Wilson and Marvin Berry), and in the [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII second movie]] Marty's screaming boss embodies a Japanese stereotype. This type of cheap racial humor was still common in the 1980s, even though ironically the first movie was trying to celebrate racial progress.
* ''Film/TheSiege'', in which Arab terrorists attack New York, after which Arabs are rounded up into concentration camps. However, the movie is quite [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy-handed]] about defying this trope, with even the WellIntentionedExtremist GeneralRipper responsible for the said round-up making a speech ''against instituting martial law''. It also contains HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler:The MysteriousInformant]] is not only [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant) a liar]], but also TheMole. Remember, this film was released four years before the second Gulf War. Also, one of the good guys is an Arab-American FBI agent who's outraged and resigns when his son gets rounded up with the rest.
* ''Film/TheDeltaForce'' centers around a plane hijacking by a group of Lebanese terrorists (probably based off the real-life 1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacking).
* ''Film/IronMan1'' tries to avert this trope by saying that the terrorist group includes people who "speak many different languages -- Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Urdu, Russian, Hungarian (!)..." However, all the terrorists shown onscreen are brown (although some are undoubtedly supposed to be Afghan, not Arab). And the main terrorist henchman speaks Arabic in all his scenes despite being played by the Pakistani-American Faran Tahir (though Urdu is spoken in some scenes, and is a realistic choice for a multi-ethnic group)…so the attempted aversion doesn't really work. Perhaps a subversion later on when Iron Man actually saves innocent Middle Eastern citizens from the terrorists. There's also the nice prisoner who helps Tony build his suit. A bit of a MagicalNegro in a few ways, but his HeroicSacrifice (aka he walks into a group of armed men with no chance for survival) is made more interesting when he reveals that he's actually trying to get himself killed so that he can be with his dead family again. In the original comic book Tony's captors were all ''Vietnamese'' (it was published around the time of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar) including Professor Yinsen, who, yes, helps Tony to build the armor and makes a HeroicSacrifice to save him. (Yinsen is most definitely a Chinese name, not Vietnamese, though there are ethnic Chinese people in Vietnam, whom the Communists persecuted.)
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones''
** ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' has lots of swarthy Arabs in turbans who keep trying to slice Indy up with their swords. Somewhat averted by the character of Sallah, Indy's trustworthy Egyptian friend...who is played by a Welshman.
--->'''Indy:''' "These Arabs don't care if we kill each other."
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' seems to be a better aversion, though, as most Arabs there are actually trying to stop the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] from getting their hands on the Holy Grail. They do appear to be villains in an earlier scene, though, and Indy beats some of them up.
* ''Literature/TheSheik'', the 1921 silent movie starring Rudolph Valentino, depicts the title character as a NobleSavage who wins over the virginal European heroine with his violent passion. Averted since the end of the movie reveals that he's actually European, not Arab (thus making the romance acceptable). It's worth noting that in the original novel, the sheik rapes the heroine, thus making her fall in love with him. In the movie's sequel, ''Son of the Sheik'', Rudolph Valentino's character does actually rape the female protagonist, and by the end of the movie they're happily in love.
* ''Film/{{Hidalgo}}'' includes untrustworthy Bedouins who try to double-cross the hero so he loses the big horse race. It also features an oppressed Arab woman, the sheikh's daughter, who is being forced into a marriage to her cousin.
* ''Rules of Engagement'': In this movie, American Marines open fire on unarmed Yemeni civilians at the American embassy in Sana'a (Samuel L. Jackson gives the order to "Waste the mother#@&%ers!"), killing women and children, and [[RashomonStyle the story turns to finding out whether Jackson's recollection was true]]. In the end, though, it turns out that the civilians were no better than terrorists themselves -- they all, even a four-year-old girl, fired on the Marines first! So the whole movie is a justification for killing Arab civilians, even women and kids -- because they're not actually innocent civilians, they're terrorists too.
** Actually the DVD commentary confirmed that the scene was originally supposed to be ambiguous; however the test audience wanted a more literal interpretation. Also, the one witness in the trial who isn't a complete liar is the Arab doctor, who accurately translates the tape even though it's painful for him.
* Subverted in ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'' where the dead Arab is the scapegoat [[spoiler:of the film's evil CIA operatives staging a terrorist outrage to increase their budget]].
* Somewhat averted by ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' where the Arab characters are generally heroes. Only somewhat, because every major Arab character (except the one played by Omar Sharif) is played by a Westerner, and the fact they are unable to overcome their tribal differences in Damascus, allowing the British and French to take over from the 'children.' That was also kind of what really happened: the various factions were unable to agree on anything and couldn't present a unified front to the League of Nations. The movie also portrayed the British and the French as beings complete racist bastards who only care about Arabia as being a part of their empires. All the factions in the movie were bastards, to some extent.
* The adaptation of Creator/TomClancy's ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' replaced [[Literature/TheSumOfAllFears the book]]'s Arab terrorists with Neo-Nazis, the former apparently being considered cliche. Then 9/11 happened while the film was in production.
* This happens in '' Soul Plane'', a movie where ''everybody'' is game. The scene shows a man, without showing his face at first, walking through the aisles. As he's passing by, flight attendants and passengers stop and stare at him in fear or disgust (while the theme for ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' is being played). When he finally reaches his seat, he's revealed to be a Middle-Eastern man in a turban. As soon as the poor guy sits down, he suddenly gets harassed by two employees and is called "Osama" by one of them. It's all PlayedForLaughs.
* ''Film/{{Network}}'': What really sets off Howard Beale during his [[MemeticMutation "I'm as mad as hell!"]] speech is Arabs allegedly buying up land in America.
* The 2006 documentary ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_Bad_Arabs Reel Bad Arabs]]'' is an in-depth look at the stereotyping of Arabs and other Middle Eastern peoples, such as Iranians (see below), in mainstream media, particularly films. It makes the point that such stereotyping is, in fact, extremely harmful.

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* Believe it or not, [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] Wrestling actually manages to avert it, ''and'' subvert it. The aversion comes with [[Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa Raisha Saeed]], burqa-clad wrestler/manager who was one of the most powerful women in TNA's "Knockout" division (thanks largely to her association with the unstoppable [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Awesome Kong]]); though she's an example of a [[ForeignWrestlingHeel long running tradition]] of mysterious Arab {{Heel}}s, it's more flattering than a terrorist angle. The subversion comes with "Sheik Abdul Bashir", who would seem to be the epitome of that standard "terrorist" stereotype, what with the angry rhetoric and the comments about holding the X-Division title "hostage"… but only if you ignore his introductory vignettes, which established him as a former Iranian-American businessman who lost everything after 9/11 due to runaway hatred of Middle Easterners, and then decided that [[ThenLetMeBeEvil he would make himself into the very personification of American fears as the ultimate revenge]]. Said vignettes even established that Abdul Bashir isn't even his real name; that would be Wrestling/ShawnDaivari.
** Daivari himself also portrayed the childhood friend of a DoubleSubversion in Wrestling/MuhammadHassan. Hassan was introduced and constantly described as an American-born of Arab descent who was just as appalled by 9/11 as "we" were, but became the victim of racism from those who didn't want to know him. The double subversion came when irony bit HARD on the character, as the fans didn't want to know him and booed him for his race. The writing team quickly applied {{Flanderization}} like there was no tomorrow and turned him into the evil Arab the fans wanted to think of him as, culminating in choking an opponent out with a piano wire garrotte while Daivari was carried out as though a martyr by a bunch of people in ski masks, thus taking what might have been one of the most interesting characters ever and making him the most offensive. Irony kept biting when the WWE taped that particular scene on 4 July 2005 for a show to air on 7 July, meaning it was already in the can when London got attacked. Everyone in the media, including those who really should know better, said the WWE was capitalizing on the terrorist attack, and Hassan's career was over before it ever started.
* Played completely straight with several ForeignWrestlingHeel's from the '60s and '70s, most notably Wrestling/EdFarhat a.k.a. The Original Sheik, Wrestling/TheIronSheik and manager Wrestling/GeneralSkandorAkbar. Akbar in particular is notable as he essentially personified the whole "greedy Arab oil magnate" stereotype. The Sheik personified the barbaric savage, he wouldn't even speak English in character, and The Iron Sheik, while not a barbarian, came off as a violent thug.

[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi1ZNEjEarw This video]] demonstrates nearly every portrayal of Arabs as either a) terrorists, b) religious fanatics, c) America haters, or d) all of the above in film over the past 30 years.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}.'' The original lyrics to "Arabian Nights" started this way: "Oh, I come from a land, from a faraway place/Where the caravan camels roam/Where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face/It's barbaric, but hey, it's home!" Then there's Jasmine, a princess who dresses like a harem girl. It's also worth noting that the good characters have more Western-looking appearances (Aladdin was actually modeled on Creator/TomCruise), and generic American accents, while the evil Jafar has more Semitic features and an [[http://www.metamercury.net/film%20phenomena/quoted/Does%20evil%20have%20an%20accent_files/Does%20evil%20have%20an%20accent.htm evil British accent]]. The line about "cutting off your ear" was later replaced by "Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense."
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' had ''Carbombya'', an obvious jab at Libya. Lebanese voice actor Creator/CaseyKasem left the show at that point, finding it in unimaginably poor taste. That's why Cliffjumper has no lines afterward.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' had Hassan, a bloodthirsty Arab with a huge sword, whose lines essentially consisted of some variation of "Hassan chop!"

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'''Iranians/Persians'''

Often portrayed similarly to and confused with Arabs.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''Not Without My Daughter''.
* ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' has a brief reference to the "Persian mafia" -- a poke at Los Angeles Persians, which would be a subset of Iranian/Persian Acceptable Targets. (The stereotype of Los Angeles Persians is often an Acceptable Target for Iranians as well, so a lot of Iranians thought the ''Film/{{Clueless}}'' reference was hilarious.)
* ''Film/ThreeHundred''. Yes, you can make the case that it was told from the perspective of an UnreliableNarrator, but there are a lot of other ethnic groups that a major Hollywood movie simply could not get away with depicting as faceless, soulless, subhuman depraved monsters. More likely the film would never have seen the light of day. The bad guys in both movie and comic book were not only the Persians, but also (generic eastern) Asians, black men, homosexuals (and bisexuals, transsexuals...), old men, sick men, hunchbacks and deformed in general. And they were all portrayed as cowardly, incompetent, and/or inhuman, depraved monsters. Even the only woman in the movie, despite being on the side of the heroes, has to [[spoiler: prostitute herself to try and get military help for her husband]]. And if you speak Italian, it's funny that the only named bad guy other than Xerxes is called [[spoiler: Theron]], since its italianized form ([[spoiler:Terone]]) [[BilingualBonus is a derogative epithet]] for [[spoiler: people from the South of Italy, usually darker and physically more similar to Arabic people, as opposed to the people from the North, who have usually more Mittel-European features]].

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Subverted in ''Series/{{JAG}}'' where main character Sarah Mackenzie is stated to be of Persian descent and speaks Farsi. The actress who plays her (Creator/CatherineBell) is half-Iranian herself.
* Much the same in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' with [[Creator/SarahShahi Sameen Shaw]], who might be a SociopathicHero-slash-EmotionlessGirl but does improve in later seasons.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* The Iron Sheik is an Iranian/Persian, and his gimmick is basically pushy motor mouth who spits a lot, hates USA to the point of "hearing" chants of "USA" even when they are not existent in Guam and can't hold his liquor. In less PG promotion he will also threaten to rape your daughters, and sons. Promoters have turned him into an Arab twice, most bafflingly during the Gulf War where he became an Iraqi.

[[AC:RecordedAndStandUpComedy]]
* Played with by Iranian comedian Omid Djalili, who discusses how media bias causes difficulty with differentiation for the west; he does so by explaining that describing a cat as "Persian" (i.e. beautiful, exquisite, well-bred), and describing a cat as "Iranian" (i.e. must have a bomb underneath it!) will generate contrasting opinions due to the double standard regarding the similar cultures.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* A VERY common target on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', specifically the modern stereotype of Persian immigrant businessmen who douse themselves in cologne and hair products, drive white BMW's and decorate everything in marble, gold and purple.

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'''Filipinos'''

Tend to be mocked because of "not really being Asian" due to the fact that Filipino culture has far more Western influences (due to three ''centuries'' of Spanish control and a few highly-influential decades of American rule and influence) than Eastern Asian ones. This thought was essentially summarized in the line of a ''Series/MadTV1995'' sketch: ''"He's not Asian, he's Filipino!"'' or in an episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace,'' when Karen mentioned her boss was away on business in the Philippines: "I like Filipinos; they're Asian, but they're not cocky about it." Then there are all the jokes about Filipino foreign workers caricatured as being practically everywhere. Not to mention all the mail-order brides and prostitutes jokes that always seem to pop up. Plus the fact that young Filipino boys are now seen as a kind of catch-all for what gay men are supposed to be into.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* Shiima Xion, the "first Filipino male model of wrestling", takes the "not really Asian" stereotype and runs with it, basically by being an orange tanning Italian Guido in all but a few aspects of his physical appearance.
* The "filthy Filipina" Shotzi Blackheart tries to prove her Asianess by diving headfirst into Far East culture, but as such gets accused of being a DragonLady, Japanophile or Anime/{{Samurai Pizza Cat|s}}.
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[[folder:Other ethnic groups and nationalities]]
'''Black People'''

Only in pre-Civil Rights America. Or when done by other [[BoomerangBigot black people]] for the sake of comedy. Racism against blacks in the media is generally considered unacceptable in contemporary America, and receives more attention than racism against any other group for various reasons. For most of America's history, blacks were considered an acceptable ethnic target (see MinstrelShows, OnceAcceptableTargets). Most European and South American nations are the same. In much of Asia, depressingly, black people are ''still'' acceptable ethnic targets, though there are notable and noble exceptions.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* While "colored" wrestlers were always highly promoted special attractions on professional wrestling cards, they were rarely more than that, and aside from being filmed eating watermelons for shits and giggles were never portrayed too prominently, or offensively for that matter, for fear of sparking riots. In the event a black wrestler did become too popular to suppress, such as Wrestling/BoboBrazil, they were still pigeon holed into whitebread baby face roles. Ernie Ladd was an exception, as his fame as a professional football player allowed him to get away with being a {{heel}} even against white wrestlers.
* In the USWA Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination was mostly made up of white men who were trying to impress their black friends. This simple joke was far too complicated for the WWF, who made them into a [[AngryBlackManStereotype straight riff of the NOI]] while still having [[TheSlacker a small number of white men do all their work for them]].

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'''Boers/Afrikaners'''

During the 1980s era when international revulsion against [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid]] was at its height, there was a brief tendency in British and American works to have white South Africans, especially [[AmoralAfrikaner Afrikaners]], turning up as villains, even in stories with nothing particularly to do with South Africa. If they weren't the BigBad, they were usually [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]], and visually portrayed in a manner bordering on that of albinism (which isn't even accurate, since many Boers have fairly swarthy complexions from having lived for centuries in a semitropical climate). Even if the story wasn't about apartheid, they had a strong tendency to [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain be particularly nasty to any non-white character]] who crossed their path.

[[AC:{{Comedy}}]]
* Why did the South African cross the road? '''APARTHEID!'''

[[AC:{{Comic Books}}]]
* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' strip ''Skizz'', about a friendly alien lost in 1980s Birmingham, has the [[InhumanableAlienRights sadistic and xenophobic]] [[TheMenInBlack Man In Black]] Mr. van Owen, who is even drawn as a caricature of the South African Prime Minister P W Botha.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* Subverted, or maybe inverted with ''Film/{{District 9}}''. While it's about an alien version of apartheid, all of South Africa is prejudiced against the extraterrestrials. The hero is also an Afrikaner who pulls a HeelFaceTurn. The movie's [[WordOfGod not about apartheid]]. It's actually about South African immigration. For the most part this trope is played straight, since we're talking about the main Afrikaaners in the movie, most of whom are [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Evil Businessmen]], [[EvilGenius Sadistic Scientists]], and [[SociopathicSoldier Gun-Toting Maniac Racists]]. But a careful bit of attention to the in-story "logic" behind the Nigerian gangsters and you uncover some potentially interesting parallels. For instance, if Prawns represent sympathetic immigrants and a good many immigrants in the country are Nigerian but your Nigerians are AlwaysChaoticEvil then you're entering ugly territory.
* The best remembered example nowadays is probably psychotic blond South African diplomat, murderer and smuggler Arjen Rudd in ''Film/LethalWeapon2'', and his similarly pasty and vicious mooks.

[[AC: {{Literature}}]]
* Deconstructed in Toeckey Jones' book ''Go Well, Stay Well'', about a white South African teenage girl who feels morally superior to Boers because she's Anglo-Saxon. The fact that she has a BlackBestFriend probably makes her think this is [[SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX all the more justified]]. She maintains this image for a while, even after she starts dating a non-racist Boer boy.

* In ''Literature/TheGunsOfTheSouth'' time-traveling Afrikaner extremists go back to assist the Confederacy in winning the American Civil War by giving them AK-47s, so apartheid South Africa can have a strong ally in the future. All of them are portrayed as violent racist militants who like the fact that the Confederacy allows black slavery, buying slaves for themselves while there. To be fair, however, the real-life group they came from was extreme even by apartheid standards (it was actually banned by the government in those days).

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E3DeltaAndTheBannermen Delta and the Bannermen]]" has the evil HumanAlien BountyHunter Keillor, who has an unexplained South African accent.
** The astronauts in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment The Sontaran Experiment]]" also have South African accents. They aren't the antagonists as such, but they are depicted as curt and uncivilised.
* The "No Offence" Woman in ''Series/TheFastShow'' was given a South African accent specifically because she was so horrible, according to a ''Magazine/RadioTimes'' interview with the creators.

[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* The ''Series/SpittingImage'' song "I've Never Met A Nice South African". Subverted however by mentioning there ''are'' nice South Africans... who opposed apartheid.

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* In the 1980s the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation had a white nationlists South American Poacher Colonel [=DeBeers=], made better or worse, depending on your perspective by NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
* Averted with Sivi Afi, but only because making him a WildSamoan was more interesting than another South African steroetype. Steve Simpson was a South African who was allowed to simply be a wrestler though, most of the time.
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'''Jamaicans'''

Even though the Jamaican stereotype of a dread-locked pot-smoking Rastafarian on the beach, mon, is usually PlayedForLaughs, it does get extremely annoying. It is quite common for someone from Jamaica to go abroad and be asked if they live on the beach, have air-conditioning, or if they use knives and forks. Really. Also these stereotypes even spread to other Caribbean countries, due to many not knowing much about countries other than Jamaica and maybe the Bahamas.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' has an aversion. According to [[AllThereInTheManual the writer's bible and comics]], Dr. Hartford is Jamaican.
* Also averted by Hermes Conrad of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', portrayed as a strict bureaucrat. Although he was a world-famous Limbo champion in his younger days. But he does have some [[TheStoner other interests]] that put him in line with the stereotype.

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'''[[BoomerangBigot One's Own Race and/or Culture]]'''

Make fun of those who look different, and you'll be labeled a racist. But if it's ''your own'' race, then it is perfectly acceptable. Note that here, the one taking the shots is not required to limit themselves to their own group in all circumstances. And, of course, if the mocker is of mixed races, that's more races to mock.

Virtually all forms of ethnic targets for the sake of comedy are considered acceptable when the person making the statement belongs to the targeted ethnic group (see: George Lopez, Creator/ChrisRock, etc.). The same sort of 'intra-ethnic' targeting is almost uniformly considered less acceptable outside of comedy (example: Herman Cain). See BoomerangBigot for more details.

Note that this type of [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecative]] humor can apply to more than just ethnicity, as people usually have a "free pass" to poke fun at their own profession/religion/politics/place of residence, and those in the same group who are not StopHavingFunGuys will often laugh alongside them.

[[AC:{{Comedy}}]]
* Carlos Mencia's entire schtick. Oddly, his early stand-up acts stress his Honduran heritage, even containing a bit about how nobody recognizes that fact and simply labels him Mexican in California, Puerto Rican in New York City, or Cuban in Florida. By the time he got his own show on Creator/ComedyCentral, he self-identified as a Mexican, or, more often than not, a "beaner."
* Compared to Creator/SarahSilverman, Creator/MelBrooks is ''so'' politically correct.
* A number of black comedians have making fun of black people as the linchpin of their stand-up act. Chris Rock is probably the most prominent of these, but he's far from the only one. He is changing, though. While he used to split his time between making fun of blacks and making fun of whites, as his act has progressed it's gradually changed from "White people screw with black people, and black people aren't helping the situation" to more purely white-themed jokes. He ditched a lot of the jokes blaming black people for "the situation" around the same time he noticed just how much his white audiences were enjoying his "The difference between black people and niggers" bits, though it was also partially him dropping very old material. This is nothing new: Creator/RichardPryor indulged in this to the extent that most of his albums in the 1970s included the N-word in their ''titles'', and earlier comedians such as Redd Foxx (oh yeah, he was raunchy, in the day) and Moms Mabley also made considerable fun of black people.
* Russell Peters gets away with all sorts of race jokes because he -- despite his name -- is East Indian.
* The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour is entirely based on this principle. Not only do the Middle-Eastern comics make ample fun of themselves, they also take plenty of shots at Jews and other minorities.
** It's worth noting that most of the "shots" eventually end with a punchline about Middle Easterners (Ahmed Ahmed's "Jews yell into the phone" is part of a long riff on how Jews and Arabs are the same, Maz Jobrani's AsianDrivers reference ends with a punchline that's ultimately on Middle Easterners), so there's a lot of overlap with NWordPrivileges. Interestingly, Jobrani has claimed that he receives complaints after shows when he ''doesn't'' tease other ethnic groups -- by people from those ethnic groups who feel ignored!
** Ahmed Ahmed also sharply inverts this with a joke about how even after 9/11, Muslims were still only the ''fourth'' most targeted group for hate crimes, after blacks, gays and Jews. "So... what do we have to ''do''?"
* Creator/BrianRegan compared himself to a friend of Italian descent who does not actually speak the language but says Italian food names in the most Italian way possible. Being of Irish descent, Brian says "Corned beef and cabbage! It's magically delicious!" with an Irish accent, and then he proceeds to fake river-dance off the stage.
* Creator/LennyHenry started out in the 70s doing racist jokes. Even though he's black, it wasn't deemed very cool.
* Paul Sinha, who's Asian-British and gay, plays with this.
* Creator/SachaBaronCohen, who is Jewish, plays an antisemitic character, Borat. The point of the shtick is to make fun of antisemitism, not Jews, but it's debatable how much a non-Jewish comedian could have gotten away with routines like "Throw the Jew Down the Well."
** It's debatable how well Sasha Baron Cohen got away with it as well. Most found the antisemitic segments incredibly uncomfortable, which was arguably the point, but many felt they were too raw even for self mockery.
*** Since the Borat movie was well-received critically and commercially, it is probably safe to say most people found the humor at least somewhat acceptable. It wasn't without controversy, but the majority of viewers seemed to get it.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* The ''Film/RushHour'' movies are big offenders here. In the second movie, Chris Tucker punches Creator/JackieChan by accident while fighting Chinese Triads and says, "[[RacialFaceBlindness All y'all look alike]]!" This is only justified by the fact that Jackie Chan makes fun of Asians often, so giving Chris Tucker just one line does little harm. It's also the fact that the joke sort of involves mocking white people more than anything else, as it's a common accusation that white people think all black people look alike... thus the humor in a black person saying something similar of another ethnicity. Of course studies have shown that people raised around a majority of one race have more difficulty picking out distinguishing features of other races, but because of the above-noted WASP acceptable target, it's associated with white people.
* Creator/MelBrooks could not have gotten away with half the stuff he did if it wasn't for the fact that he himself is Jewish.
* Joel and Ethan Coen. ''Film/MillersCrossing''.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' beat them by a few decades, and used it in a bit of satire; a 'Korean' (played by Japanese American Creator/PatMorita), on being asked about someone, reported that 'all you [white] folks look alike to us'.
** Studies have shown that it's common for a person of any race to have trouble distinguishing members of any other race. It is theorized that this is because when confronted with a person of obvious differences, such as a different skin color or a differently-shaped nose or face, most people will focus on those major differences, and will have trouble distinguishing the details, such as shades of skin color or slight variations in shape of nose or face. So, this may have been more TruthInTelevision than the writers intended.
* ''Series/TheDailyShow'' tends to feature this regarding Creator/JonStewart's jewishness, including a hysterical ad-lib by Creator/JohnOliver when Stewart [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome cut his hand open]] doing AGlassInTheHand, telling him to "[[{{Hypochondria}} Stop being so Jewish about it!]]" The staff is also routinely granted NWordPrivileges in this regard.

[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's album ''Straight Outta Lynwood'' contains "White & Nerdy," a song that pokes fun of white people. The music video even contains Donny Osmond doing some extremely dorky dancing and Creator/SethGreen showing off his expansive action-figure collection.

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* A video game example of this can be found in the obscure Amiga game ''Alien Target''. For the most part it is just shooting aliens, but if you manage to play really well you could play a special round in which you could kill of Polish innocents for laughs. The publisher of that game is LK Avalon, who is Polish.

[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* The [[WebVideo/CommentaryTheMusical musical commentary]] for ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' contains "Nobody's Asian in the Movies," which is loaded with Asian stereotypes. It was performed by an Asian.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* This is played with, lampshaded and subverted many times in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''. One example is when Uncle Ruckus sings "Don't trust them new niggers over there" and is applauded by a crowd of [=WASPs=] because "It's OK if one of ''them'' says it."
-->'''Granddad:''' That's what I'm talkin' about right there! We don't use the [[NWordPrivileges n-word]] in this house!
-->'''Huey:''' Granddad, you said the word "nigga" 46 times yesterday, I counted.
-->'''Granddad:''' [[HypocriticalHumor Nigga, hush!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Cartman being a raving antisemite at the expense of Kyle, who is Jewish, is somewhat downplayed by the fact that Creator/MattStone (voice of Kyle) is a Jew. So if one of the show's creators is Jewish and doesn't seem to mind these kind of jokes most people can take it a bit better. It might also have something to do with the fact that Cartman is depicted as the most despicable character ''by far'' on the show ... and this is a show with ''Satan'' as a recurring character.

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'''Australians and New Zealanders'''

New Zealanders and Australians treat each other as {{acceptable targets}}, as mentioned on that page. Both have more in common with each other than either are prepared to admit -- even if Australia is thought of as a wannabe USA but without the dignity and refinement, and New Zealand's national sport is thought to be emigration to Australia. In each other's popular media, Australians are slightly dim, and New Zealanders aren't to be found beyond bludging off the taxpayer while sunning themselves on the Gold Coast.
[[AC:Advertising]]
* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqRVqXMyzhM NZ advertisement for a hardware chain]].
[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* Wrestling/TheFabulousKangaroos, who would cheat by throwing razor edged boomerangs at their opponents, which apparently isn't illegal in Australia. Also, they would spit in your eye, which apparently how one says "hello" in Australia.
* New Zealand wrestlers were regarded as bright smiling out of the ring all business superior mat wrestlers in the ring thanks to World Heavyweight Champion Pat O'Connor, but unforntuantely he was one of the names targeted in an anti-trust lawsuit against the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance and "the guy" in Wrestling/BuddyRogers's famous "To A Nicer Guy, It Couldn't Happen" promo after be beat O'Connor for the belt, making New Zealanders a punchline in wrestling. Then they became dangerous hardcore brawlers with the rise of Wrestling/TheSheepherders, but they got turned into jokes in the WWF after their HeelFaceTurn into The Bushwakers, and New Zealanders became seen as "wacky". Then the stereotype turned to "[[SeriousBusiness try]][[TechnicianVersusPerformer hard]]" "[[Wrestling/KarlGotch kick boys]]" abroad when Jay White tried to appeal to the ROH audience by emulating their inaugural champion Wrestling/LowKi before throwing his hands up and joining Wrestling/BulletClub.
* Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} subverted this, as the Australian Pink Ladies began as goofy {{jobber}}s but gradually TookALevel in Badass, and were generally well rounded enough to offset the overthetop Kellie Skater. Pretty much every Australian has also been a champion of some kind in SHIMMER or at least a frequent contender. In the {{spinoff}}s SHINE and RISE, however, all the Australian wrestlers are goofy {{paper tiger}}s, to the point Evie muttered "Thank God!" when Maddison Eagles made it clear Evie was in fact from New Zealand.

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'''{{Canad|aEh}}ians'''

[[QuirkyNeighbourCountry The quirky counterpart of their neighbors to the south]]. They have these harmless but odd habits that are easy to make fun of, like [[VerbalTic ending their sentences with "eh?"]] and [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan obsessing over hockey]], and they're so nice and polite that if you do mock them, they'll probably take it in stride ([[BerserkButton unless you say]] [[Film/CanadianBacon their beer sucks]]). We have [[CanadaEh a whole trope on this one]].

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* Canadians in general used to be considered quite, serious types who insist on low to the mat no punch kick matches while struggling to give compelling interviews, dating back to the days of the Bristish Empire. Anglo-Canadians later began to be seen as hammy "cool kids" with fragile egos, tending to lash out at everything that doesn't acknowledge their superiority, thanks to Wrestling/OwenHart, Wrestling/JimNeidhart, Wrestling/ChrisJericho and Wrestling/Christian, but the charisma blackhole stereotype held on thanks to "technical wizard" Wrestling/LanceStorm and Wrestling/{{Test}}. Franco-Canadians tend to be sea rats, dirty theives, low life thugs and {{garbage wrestler}}s, or wannabe Frenchmen, with all the negative traits that come with being French ''and'' a poser. The latter is due to WWE turning Franco-Canadians La Resistance and Maryse into Francophiles, fake Frenchmen, or French Sympathizers, [[ThreeMonthRule as the situation required]].
* Canadians in general tend to have a lousy reptuation in CWF Mid-Atlantic, but to be fair this is mostly due to the legacy of relentless antagonism from Steve Corino. With his depature Canadians gradually began to be accepted like everyone else.

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'''Past colonizers\colonies'''

In the Americas, most countries mock the European potencies who colonized them, and the colonists ensure that the joke goes both ways. Stereotyping is a cheap source of laughs, particularly emphasizing the other's CulturalPosturing. Examples include UK and US (less so with Canada), Portugal and Brazil, and Spain with basically all the other Latin Americans.

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[[folder:Height/build]]
'''Skinny Men'''

For many, skinny means weak and easy to defeat in a physical fight. Doubly so if said guy is also short. While being tall and lanky may be tolerated, being skinny and of average height is unacceptable for a man in the media, since such men look "weak" and weakness, especially ''physical'' weakness, is just [[WhatMeasureIsANonBadass the very definition of failure at being a "real" man]].

[[AC:{{Advertising}}]]
* The old "Charles Atlas" ad.
* The old "Mr. Muscle" drain cleaner ads contained this, most likely as a [[OnceAcceptableTargets flimsy, co-dependent woman]] would most likely [[DoubleStandard cause more offence than the flimsy, co-dependent man used.]]

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Eric Foreman from ''Series/That70sShow'' often falls under this trope, since Topher Grace is fairly skinny; his friends call him "girly," and his mother even castratingly reassures him that he's "not skinny, but ''dainty!'' Meanwhile his girlfriend and mother alike fall immediately for the more traditionally "manly" Casey Kelso.
* In ''Series/CriminalMinds'' there was a scrawny unsub who participated in a fight club and lost every fight he got into. This drove him to get a gun and kill anyone who had higher authority than him.

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'''Overweight Women'''

Such women are pretty much the DistaffCounterpart to the above. While fat men are not exempt from being bashed, in the media -- and sometimes in RealLife -- it's fat women who get the brunt of said bashing, often called 'whales' or 'hippo-ladies' and considered the epitome of ugliness, which is an inexcusable and unacceptable flaw for a woman, InAWorld where MenActWomenAre. Not to mention that positive portrayals in the media are almost non-existent.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''Film/ShallowHal'' showed that fat women could be good people intellectually and emotionally, but otherwise still portrayed them as phsyically lazy, clumbsy gluttons.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Alma Pudden in ''Literature/StClares''. Really fat, obsessed with food, dumb and mean and mocked by the main characters.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. From Peg's *huge* mother to the fat women frequenting Al's workplace, this show doesn't just verbally mock overweight women, it also portrays them as food-addicted, greedy, mean-spirited and overall just unpleasant beings (although this being ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', almost ''everyone'' is a greedy, mean-spirited and overall just unpleasant human being).
* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had a victim with [[ChubbyChaser an obese women fetish]]. The victim's tastes and his lovers were mocked several times in the episode. In fact, he was killed by [[spoiler: a woman who fainted while she was riding him, suffocating him because she was so fat he couldn't put her aside.]]

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* Numerous examples on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. If the word "cankles" turns up often, then somebody's being made fun of.
** In-universe, Peter himself often bashes fat women, but has no problems with fat men like himself.
-->'''Peter''': Lois, [[DoubleStandard men aren't fat, only fat women are fat.]]
* The whole reason for the character of Kendra Krinklesac's existence in ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow''. She's morbidly obese to the point that she's never shown transporting anywhere without her rascal, and has needed crane lifts to get her physically unstuck from her house. She basically embodies the "white trash" stereotype that you would expect to see appearing at a Wal-Mart, who makes the most of her life by enjoying cheap, unhealthy foods. Very rarely has she ever been portrayed as anything more than a fat joke, but those times show some HiddenDepths.
* Debbie, Steve's fat goth girlfriend in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' plays with this: he does love her despite the ridicule and disapproval from family and friends. On the other hand, she is given a pretty positive portrayal, being [[PerkyGoth kind, cheerful, and good at housework]]. Even Stan takes a liking to her at one point.
* Toot Braunstein on ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' is fat and holds the official position of "the bitch" in the house. Ironically, the jokes about her weight so vastly outnumber those about her being a bitch that she's arguably the least unsympathetic of the show's cast of {{Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist}}s.

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'''Dwarfs'''

Also, short people in general. Mostly for the visual. This occurs with the very tall sometimes (see below), but nearly every appearance of a dwarf on television is because their height is going to be emphasized. May be TheNapoleon. It also may help to note that "midget" is considered a highly offensive term, yet in media it continues to be the catchall expression for dwarfs.

[[AC:{{Comedy}}]]
* In an interesting lampshade, the stand-up comedian Brad Williams is a dwarf and makes extensive use of it in his routine, which generally includes a lot of physical humor. One notable staple of his routine is dancing to various styles of music chosen by the audience. Why? Well, as he and his fellow comedian Carlos Mencia point out, dancing midgets are just funny.
* The basic point of the ''Funny Or Die'' ''Series/TrueDetective'' parody "Tiny Detectives," with Creator/KateMara (5'2") and Creator/ElliotPage (5'1") as cops whose work is constantly hampered by their lack of height -- being too short to see blood splatters on walls, Page's feet being unable to reach the car pedals, Mara being asked if she sleeps in a shoebox, the two going undercover as a man with Page on Mara's shoulders until the latter's head pokes out ("That's my face-penis..."), etc.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* Almost every character ever played by Creator/PeterDinklage is an exception. He's made a career out of subverting dwarf stereotypes.
** As a dwarf actor in ''Film/LivingInOblivion'' his role completely skewers [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal the use of dwarfs as surreal visual elements]]. When the filmmaker protagonists film a dream sequence in which a dwarf walks around holding an apple, the dwarf actor insists that the whole thing is overplayed, yells at the director and eventually storms off the set. (This was actually his first film role.)
** The Creator/VinDiesel movie ''Find Me Guilty'' featured a dwarf lawyer, played by Dinklage, who was largely treated as just another character, his height hardly even being commented upon. This was primarily because the movie was almost entirely based on real events, and he was portraying a real lawyer who just happened to be a dwarf. It only becomes noticeable when he stands on a platform for addressing the jury at head height (for them).
** ''Film/DeathAtAFuneral'' features Peter Dinklage ([[TheDanza as Peter]] in the 2007 original or Frank in the 2010 remake) as a major character. His height is never commented on except as an identifying feature.
** Dinklage also played Finbar [=McBride=], the protagonist of ''Film/TheStationAgent''. His dwarfism is a major part of the film, but isn't played for laughs at all. So... {{averted|Trope}}.
** Averted in ''Film/Penelope2006''. Though one character is a dwarf nobody makes any mention of this except one clearly idiotic character who is ignored. He also wears a bitchin' eyepatch.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' casts Dinklage as King Eitri -- a Dwarf from the planet of Nidavellir -- the single largest mortal character to appear in the entire Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.
* Subverted ''and'' used, extensively, in the 1981 comedy film ''Under The Rainbow''.
* Semi-averted in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''. A member of Jack's crew is also a little person, and while they once or twice play his size for laughs, he's largely treated as just another member of Jack's dysfunctional little "family". Nearly every production that features [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0458514/ Martin Klebba]] generally ignores his condition... unless his dwarfism is the entire point of his appearance. He's a person not afraid to laugh at himself, after all. Perhaps because he looks like he could fight back.
* Played straight in ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'' with Mini-Me, though Mini-Me is a mutated clone and mute, not a normal dwarf; he's also stated to have certain "compensating" advantages.
* ''Film/InBruges'' has Jordan Prentice playing Jimmy, an actor with dwarfism. This is more of an in-story example; main character Ray has a strange obsession with "midgets" but all the prejudice he meets from other characters is simply because [[EagleLand he's rude and American]]. He's also mistaken for a child, and is in fact playing a child in the film's [[ShowWithinAShow Film Within A Film]]. And he's an asshole with a coke habit and occasionally racist rants, but this is shown as having more to do with him being an actor than being a dwarf. In spite of this, though, he's a fairly multilayered, believable character.
* Averted in movies of [[Creator/LuisBunuel Luis Buñuel]], who occasionally cast dwarfs because he liked their demeanor in front of the camera, even though [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075824/ script didn't require a dwarf]].
* ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': "Don't call me tiny!"
* ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene'': it's intended as humiliation that Creator/JimCarrey's character's wife runs off with a dwarf.
* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/{{Freaks}}'' where the normal-height, physically attractive Cleopatra toys with Franz's affections, thinking of him as a subhuman joke. The "normal" Cleopatra and Hercules are depicted as grotesque on the ''inside,'' whereas the "freaks" are mostly decent people...and if you harm one of them, you get to deal with ''all'' of them.
* Gimli in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers''. "Toss me!" ("Don't tell the elf!")
** May count as a subversion, since Gimli is played by John Rhys-Davies, who is not a dwarf in real-life and most instances of Gimli being shorter than the rest of the characters are either forced perspective or because he was scaled down in post-production.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Tyrion from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' gets a lot of mockery for being short and ugly, sometimes being referred to as "Halfman" and "the Imp" by certain characters and is hated by the common people. This has left him very embittered. And when [[spoiler: Cersei tries to have him killed, it leads to a veritable parade of people killing dwarfs on the basis that it might be him, and bringing her their heads]]. Although one other dwarf is shown with a relatively high station in a religious settlement, it is clear that were he not a son of the richest and most powerful lord in the land, Tyrion would have suffered even more, something he is well aware of.
** Played by Peter Dinklage (see above) in the [[Series/GameOfThrones Live-Action TV Adaptation]].
* Vincent Lorimar, in ''Literature/UndaVosari'', openly tells somebody he hits "like a midget" (as well as comparing his fists to testicles and calling him the dick in the middle).
* Averted with Newt in ''Cat's Cradle'', who is a perfectly normal guy described as very calm and dignified.
* Subverted in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', where the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwarfs]] are a belligerent minority with a fairly direct response to being denigrated as ''lawn-ornaments'', ''short-stuff'', and only ever being offered half-pints of beer. The Ankh-Morpork City Watch will usually close a case as "suicide" if the deceased has, immediately prior to their demise, been heard to make mock of an axe-carrying dwarf's short stature.
** And then there are gnomes such as "Bad Wee Jamie" or the Nac Mag Feegle, who are even smaller than dwarves, but are anything BUT natural victims!
* Averted in ''Literature/EndersShadow'' with Bean. While Bean does grow in later novels (it's a genetic disease that eventually makes him grow too tall), for the duration of the first book he is significantly shorter than all the others. However, Bean is shown as being smarter than all the rest of the school of geniuses. There are many moments where Bean is mistreated for his height, but those are mostly done by bullies or portrayed negatively. Largely, Bean uses his height to his advantage, as he does with everything.
* Stile in Piers Anthony’s ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' series is a subversion and played straight in-universe. He’s frequently mocked and underestimated due to his well below average height, but he’s one of the smartest and most athletic men in his society, and when he crosses to the parallel magic universe, he’s by far the strongest and most capable Adept (magic user) in the land. It’s all but stated outright that his drive to excel is partially fueled by his intent to prove himself greater than his appearance implies.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' dealing with dwarfs swung in its treatment of them from respectful to "humorous".
* ''Series/{{House}}'' had an episode with a dwarf woman and her daughter. [[spoiler:The daughter's condition was caused by a curable disease (Cushing's?), meaning that when cured, she hit a growth spurt.]]
** House actually treated both of them as he would anyone else -- he's abrasive and demeaning with everyone he encounters, so while he made a few dwarfism remarks, they were similar to things he's said about any other group besides "people who are Greg House". Usually hyper-sensitive Dr. Cameron came off as something of an InnocentBigot though.
* Aversion: The short-lived alien invasion drama ''Series/{{Threshold}}'' included a dwarf character: the fact that he was short was mentioned only in a few purely practical contexts along the lines of explaining why he couldn't drive someone else's car. There was a scene in a bar where the character was surrounded by half a dozen babes when another character tracked him down (he'd gone missing). He was asked "How do you get the babes?", and replied "Chicks dig brains", or words to that effect. The dwarf character had several math (and language?) degrees and was otherwise a valued team member. And was played by Creator/PeterDinklage, by the way.
* Aversion: The HBO drama ''Series/{{Carnivale}}'' featured a dwarf, Samson, who was effectively the traveling carnival's leader.
* Aversion: In ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', one of Kramer's closest friends aside from the other three main characters is a dwarf named Mickey. In one episode, his height becomes important: The child actor he doubles has grown, so he uses insoles -- which the other dwarfs don't like.
* There was said to be a stigma among dwarf-actors about "trying to heighten," because that creates unfair competition.
* Played half-straight in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. A recurring character holds a black belt that's generally shown with [[GroinAttack punches to the crotch]], or in one case, crushing the hand of another character to end a tense handshake.
** "Would you stop using that expression, Randall? It's stuck in my head."
** But averted in an episode where assisting a really short surgeon is considered a terrible assignment to pull; the "boys' club" that uses him as an instrument of social coercion is portrayed as a pack of {{Jerkass}}es, and he gets to deliver the [[AnAesop aesop]] of the episode. To be fair, the "punishment" aspect of being assigned to assist the incredibly short doctor was because the assisting surgeon would be required to stand hunched over for hours at a time, resulting in severe back pain and stiffness because of the height disparity.
* ''Series/PushingDaisies'''s fifth episode, "[[Recap/PushingDaisiesS1E5Girth Girth]]", may as well be renamed "CHENO IS SHORT", given that it consists almost entirely of reminders that Kristin Chenoweth is 4'11" -- ranging from a {{backstory}} involving a stereotypical short person's profession of horse jockey to a scene where she can't use a spade as a lever because she can't get traction on the ground. And deliberately shooting her from high angles to make her look even shorter.
** One must wonder if a scene in ''Series/TheWestWing'', where her character is walking on a hallway with C.J. "Flamingo" Cregg, is poking fun at her slight stature, or C.J.'s towering one.
* Subverted but also played straight in some ways in ''Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere''. Max admits to having a midget girlfriend and the abuse that she gets, as well as what he has to put up with for being so much taller than her, is rightfully shown as hurtful. She later finds Max indulging in jokes at her expense behind her back, causing her to leave him. The trope is played straight when Paddy calls her a dwarf, prompting Max to "correct" him on the differences between dwarfs and midgets: "Dwarfs are in the circus and do cartwheels." This is less a joke at the expense of dwarfs and more one about Max's ignorance.
* The size of presenters Richard "Hamster" Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson is a source of numerous jokes on ''Series/TopGearUK''. Hammond's height may have actually saved his life during a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSnLl_eOli0 serious crash of a Vampire drag racer at 288 mph]]; it is believed that a taller man could have been decapitated.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' halfway-subverts this -- {{Goth}} 'lab rat' Abby dates an intelligent, charming fellow science geek with a love for bowling, who just happens to be a dwarf. The one time the script calls for a joke about it, it's at the expense of Abby -- who says something rather thoughtlessly in her typical way that comes across as a jab about his height, and apologizes. However, the relationship doesn't last -- the actor playing her love interest committed suicide, and it's implied she was dumped due to her differing height.
* Subverted in ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' with Hetty, who is not only small, but also an extremely badass ex-operative that has SeenItAll, and has an enormous amount of political clout.
* Mostly, any show where [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247860 Meredith Eaton]] makes a participation is a self aversion, as she's usually proud of her genetic condition and is shown to not be intimidated by the "tall" people.
** Most notably in ''Series/BostonLegal''. Her size is often played for laughs, but she's shown to be an accomplished woman and a relentless lawyer. Also, Denny Crane is shown to fall in love with her and finding her unique proportions exotic and sexy, but it is a very turbulent relation.
* Daniel Frishman as District Attorney Vincent Daniels on ''Series/NightCourt''. While many jokes were made at the expense of his height, Frishman played up his character as a smug, over-rich, total and complete bastard, the direct antithesis of the usual "adorable midget" phenomenon that was sweeping the nation at the time.
** The jokes were made by Dan Fielding, who taunted Daniels mercilessly about his height -- but got his punishment when Daniels turned out to be his ''supervisor.''
* Politically-corrected on ''Series/LALaw'', where a midget-attorney Creator/WarwickDavis was harassed by punks, only to be "saved" by Jimmy Smits. The rest of the episode showed Smitts embarrassingly grinning and laughing like an idiot Jack-o-Lantern while chumming around with him, pretending to hit it off together as the studio bent over backwards to be politically-correct and "height-blind."
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one promo for ''Series/ShastaMcNasty'', where a character played by Verne Troyer remarks that "people get freaked out by little people"... and then proves it by screaming in the ear of a guy who was napping, causing him to freak out.
* Subverted on ''Series/HannahMontana''. Miley briefly goes out with a guy who is about an inch shorter than her (he must be about 5' 3''). She doesn't mind his height but is turned off when he has to stand on something to kiss her. She ditches him but then goes to apologize for being rude, after he tells her he always was rejected because of his small height. [[GirlOfTheWeek Although we never hear from him again.]] Played straight in some parts of the episode, as there are a lot of (corny) jokes against small people.
* Alternately averted and played for laughs on ''Chelsea Lately'', where Chelsea Handler employs a dwarf as a sidekick because of a personal attraction for little people. But she's a comedienne, so nobody's safe from ridicule.
* ''Series/TheLoneGunmen'' episode "Madam, I'm Adam" has a plot that involves a dwarf wrestling league and the situation is played as something that even the Gunman finds bizarre. Their "client" is a normal-height man [[spoiler: who is trying to win back his wife, one of the wrestlers, and has undergone a drastic procedure to try and overcome the anger problems that drove her away. The husband makes no mention of her height, but her jerkass boyfriend shows his colors when he did]].
* In ''Series/ModernFamily'', Mitchell sees his old high school girlfriend holding hands with a short red-haired person and worries that he gave her a son. He's actually a dwarf and her husband.
* Santana has been known to pick on fellow ''Series/{{Glee}}'' club member Rachel for her diminutive stature ("Listen to Dwarf Diane Warren").
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': In-universe, virtually no one respects or likes Tyrion Lannister, but the show itself does not make him a joke; on the contrary, he is arguably the most intelligent and competent character on the show. [[Creator/PeterDinklage Three guesses who plays him, in what is probably his biggest role ever]].
* Played straight and lampshaded only as relevant in an episode of one of the series dealing with hoarders, in which a little person, with the help of family, friends, and the program crew, clears out her current home. This allows her to build a house designed for her needs next door to her sister's family home, for safety and companionship--in particular, her sister's teenage daughter absolutely adores her aunt. The crew comment that the woman is the only person they have ever worked with who has understood from the start what she needs to do and why, and does not push back against help in doing so. She responds that she has been participating in cognitive behavior therapy to prepare herself for a more productive, healthier, and happier life. A win-win situation for everyone involved.


[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* ''Any'' midget match/segment is used for comedy or for the heel to mock their opponent. The exception are lucha feds like Wrestling/{{CMLL}} and Wrestling/{{AAA}}, as well as lucha inspired feds like Pro Wrestling Revolution, which have "Mini" divisions for anyone under a certain height generally taken as seriously as the "large" divisions. Though not the only members, mini ranks tend to be dominated by midgets and dwarves.
** Subverted in Wrestling/DickTheBruiser's World Wrestling Association in Indianapolis in his and Wrestling/TheCrusher's feud with Wrestling/BobbyHeenan. Bruiser and Crusher would team with a midget named Little Bruiser[[note]]When they did the match in Milwaukee, he was named "Little Crusher"[[/note]] against Heenan and [[Wrestling/TheBlackjacks The Blackjacks (Mulligan and Lanza)]]. It's two big tough {{Face}} wrestlers and a midget against two big tough {{Heel}} wrestlers and a {{Heel}} manager. Who gets the pin? The midget. Who ''takes'' the pin? Heenan.
* Wrestling/LuchaUnderground was the exception that proved the rule, as by his own rules Dario Cueto wasn't allowed to bar Mascarita Sagrada ([[LegacyCharacter VII]]) from entering his temple, but he was able to do [[DrunkWithPower everything in his power]] to encourage Sagrada to leave.

[[AC:{{Radio}}]]
* One of ''Radio/TheNowShow'''s many RunningGag s is the small stature of Jon Holmes. It is exaggerated for humourous effect.
-->How do you get the cast of ''The Now Show'' in a Mini? Two in the front, two in the back, and Jon Holmes in the cupholder.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* Possibly averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles,'' in which there are two characters short enough to potentially be the butt of dwarf jokes, but both characterizations are based on something else entirely -- Mr. Huph is defined by his callous indifference to human suffering, and the humor of Edna Mode's character stems from her artistic temperament. It is only a possible aversion because the cartoony style of the film makes it uncertain whether their shortness is supposed to be indicative of dwarfism, or just a quirk of character design. Most likely it's to contrast them with Mr. Incredible. Mr. Huph because it's thus more humorous that this tiny little guy is ranting and ordering around a massive, superpowered dude because of his authority, and Edna because she smacks the same guy around and bends him to her will with far more style and good humor. And many of the characters are physical exaggerations, including Mr. Incredible, to augment the movie's "morning cartoon" style.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E16EenyTeenyMayaMoe Eeny Teeny Maya Moe]]", there's a deconstruction of this. Moe dated a Little Person named Maya that he met on the Web. He was so nervous about dating someone that was "different" (and thus offending her), that he ended up always making asinine comments about her height. [[spoiler: Eventually, his comments about her height caused the demise of their relationship.]]
* Occasionally used in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where dwarves and midgets are portrayed as comedic, squeaky-voiced jokes, rather than human beings.
** One episode has Joe, Peter and Quagmire respond to a domestic disturbance where the couple turns out to be dwarves. The situation is treated as a sideshow attraction, with Joe using the pair as props for an impromptu Theatre/PunchAndJudy show.
** Another episode has Peter say he'd rather be a midget than blind, as "midgets run around in leprechaun outfits and a cigar, getting into all kinds of shenanigans". Cleveland responds that they are "Gods little punchlines".
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': One episode revolves around a motivational speaker who is also a little person, who immediately becomes a target of constant ridicule by Cartman. Rather than having him rise above it, which was basically what his entire character was based on, he ends up eventually succumbing to Cartmans taunts and challenges him to a fight, a fight he loses at that.

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'''The Tall'''

While not nearly as common as mockery of short people, there's still a certain amount of mockery directed towards anyone over a certain number of feet. While often a case of FlawlessToken, mostly expect to see stuff like hitting their heads on light fixtures, driving a too-tiny car, and their head being cut off in photos of groups of friends/family. Also "fun" nicknames such as Stretch and plays on "The _____ Giant". For some reason seems to often have a funny-sounding voice, so may mix this with the "Speech Impediment" acceptable target. The tall and the generally big are also [[ShorterMeansSmarter often depicted as being]] {{dumb|Muscle}}, though there's no correlation between size and brains ''at all''. A generally well-intentioned but particularly annoying stereotype is that height also lends an automatic athletic ability and predisposition, especially regarding basketball. This is also much more likely to affect female characters.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* ''Film/SpaceJam'' made a joke when several very tall basketball players and one short basketball player ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggsy_Bogues Muggsy Bogues]], the shortest NBA player in history at 5'3") are walking down the hall following a doctor. They walk through a door way... or at least Bogues and the doctor do; the others hit their heads on the door frame. This is {{Justified}} as all the players had their talent stolen by the villains, which in this scene translates to them forgetting they're all too tall to step through the door without ducking.
* The Creator/PeterJackson version of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' had a brief sequence near the beginning with Gandalf (who is of a normal human height) hitting his head on various fixtures in Bag End, a Hobbit hole. Although this might be considered more a short people joke, as Gandalf is normal human height, but is in the house of a "halfling." This was incidentally a case of ThrowItIn; he really did keep smashing his head in the tiny set.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Robert from ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'' is a running "tall" joke. While Brad Garrett is tall, he's been shown before in other roles without drawing attention to it (such as the mechanic in ''Seinfeld'' who steals Jerry's car); meanwhile Robert Barone is his only role in which he is shown to be Frankensteinishly enormous.
* College football coach Hayden Fox on ''Series/{{Coach}}'' frequently mocked SitcomArchnemesis Coach Judy Watkins, and ''the players on her ladies basketball team'' for being tall, and, implicitly, butch. Hayden was a curmudgeonly StrawMisogynist [[TheChewToy Chew Toy]] who mocked the idea of women playing sports at all, while and coach Watkins was decidedly [[WomenAreWiser closer to earth]]; usually, this highlighted that tall women are labeled as boorish and ungraceful, but unattractive as well. He also made fun of [[TheDitz his assistant coach, Dauber,]] for being tall.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' sometimes makes jokes about Marshall's height (e.g., when security tells Barny there's a Sasquatch in building) and the fact that the rest of his family are all even taller, Marshall is specificially described as being the runt of the family at 6'4.
** Except in the above example, it was Marshal calling Barney and then pretending to be a Sasquatch in order to make Barney laugh, so it's not an example of him being a target. That being said, Marshal's height is often mocked by his friends in a similar way they mock Ted's romanticism or Robin's tomboy qualities.
* In ''Series/{{Veep}}'', Jonah is constantly mocked for his height.
* ''Series/That70sShow'' has Donna, who is constantly called "lumberjack", "Big Red", "Stretch" and any other tall joke you can think of. However, those insults usually come from her vain, bitchy friend, Jackie; the male characters find Donna highly attractive.
* In ''Series/PoliceSquad'', Al the police officer (played by 7-foot tall Ronald "Tiny Ron" Taylor) was used for comic relief (for starters, his face was never shown as it was always above the edge of the screen).
* ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''[='s=] Ryan Stiles is often mentioned to be 6' 6'' tall, with jokes about his height being fairly common, but overshadowed by the bald jokes aimed at his partner in most scenes, Colin Mochrie. Ryan's height actually makes you forget that Colin is 6'2" and two of the frequent recurring comics, Brad Sherwood and Jeff David, are 6'4" themselves.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* Nelson's sketch from the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield 22 Short Films About Springfield]]" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had one. Though the Very Tall Man does get his revenge on Nelson, something a lot of the town seemed to want, he's portrayed so goofy that there's not much payoff from it. The man's voice is perhaps a side effect of genetic gigantism, so it actually adds to the payoff by driving home Nelson's unfair mockery.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror VI]]", while on the hunt for attacking billboard statues, Chief Wiggum shoots down a tall man who appeared to be the captain of a basketball team. When called out on this, he says that he was turning into a monster anyway.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'', Carver receives a love letter he later finds out is from a girl named Nona, who's quite tall, and Carver is biased about it, to the point of having nightmares about if they got together, culminating in her delivering a gigantic baby. His friends aren't above it either, as when he tells them Nona is his secret admirer, they all hold their hands out and up and say "THAT Nona?".

[[AC:Web Original]]
* One ''WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow'' crossover made fun of the (exaggerated) height differential between Joe and Handsome Tom.
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[[folder:Hair]]
'''[[DumbBlonde Blondes]]'''

[[AC:{{Comedy}}]]
* Many blonde jokes were actually descended from Dumb Pole jokes. Some didn't carry over.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Interestingly, ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' has a ''smart'' blonde (Maddie) and a ''[[AsianAirhead dumb]]'' {{Asian|Airhead}} (London). This was because, originally, Music/AshleyTisdale was to play London (after all, she ''is'' [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a parody of Paris Hilton]], a blonde). But early on, Disney realized that Ashley was better at playing Maddie, and Creator/BrendaSong (originally cast as Maddie) was better at playing London.
* Aversion: the lead character of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', which itself was ''created'' as a subversion of the [[DeadUnicornTrope "unnamed dumb blonde gets eaten by monster in dark alley" cliche of horror films]]. The title character is not always the brightest in the bunch, but that seems to stem more from impulsiveness than from genuine stupidity, as you can't be the Slayer for years on end and be a complete idiot, and she's generally pretty good at thinking fast on her feet, given the circumstances. Albeit the same series had one of the definitive examples of blonde ditziness on television in Harmony.
* Interestingly enough, another series that subverts the "dumb blonde" trope is ''Series/BostonLegal'', despite the fact that the majority of the long list of "Acceptable Targets" cliches above are played straight and usually for humor with great relish on the same show. In fact, lawyers seem to get a slight reprieve more often; blonde, capable lawyers show up in ''Series/LawAndOrder'', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', and ''Series/WomensMurderClub'', to name a few.
* One of the earliest subversions/aversions on network TV would be Jennifer, Carlson's secretary on ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati.'' The creators of the show deliberately refused to cater to the "dumb blonde" stereotype, and wrote her as intelligent, witty, ambitious, and more than a touch sarcastic.
* Ainsley Hayes from ''Series/TheWestWing'' is not only a "hot blonde" who is perfectly intelligent and capable, but she is also conservative on a show when almost the rest of the main cast is liberal, up to allowing her to make persuasive arguments on conservative issues. Although, her character is often defined by the other characters as "[[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten the blonde Republican sex kitten]]" (she's even the TropeNamer). Donna Moss is a slightly more traditional example, although she is quite smart, just not as smart as Josh.
--> '''Susan''': And if Ritchie's strategy is what you say it is, won't Josh Lyman figure that out in five minutes?
--> '''Amy''': It'll take his assistant Donna five minutes. It'll take Josh half that time.
--> '''Stackhouse''': Really?
--> '''Amy''': Maybe a little longer because the Mets lost last night, and he'll need to focus.
* More subversion: ''Series/CSIMiami'' has Calleigh Duquesne who is not only blonde, but fairly short, with a rather "little-girl" sort of voice -- absolutely none of which affects her ability as an investigator.
* Subversion: Samantha Carter from ''Series/StargateSG1'' is an undeniable super-genius in any scientific field one cares to imagine. Astrophysics, engineering, quantum physics, wormhole physics, chemistry, theoretical physics, nanotechnology, subspace theory, hyperspace physics. The list goes on and on. Carter is at the very top of all those fields.

[[AC:{{Music}}]]
* Julie Brown's "Cause I'm a Blonde". Though this might be considered an inversion, since the song explains how she manipulates people by playing on her looks and helplessness.

[[AC:{{Theatre}}]]
* Glinda from ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}''.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* Cornelia from ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''. While a fairly calm and intelligent girl in the comic books, she became TheDitz for the television series. She liked her transformation because of the big breasts that came with it.

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'''Redheads'''

Natural red hair is so rare and so noticeable that it has sparked scorn and superstitions throughout history. [[EvilRedhead Villains, bullies]] and [[FieryRedhead bad-tempered jerks]] tend to have red hair, as do [[RedheadsAreUncool losers who]] [[RedheadedStepchild get picked on]]. Still, redheads are just as likely to be portrayed in a [[RedIsHeroic positive]] [[HeroesWantRedheads light]].

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* Pretty much every redhead not named Wrestling/ElGenerico was evil after Wrestling/RingOfHonor left HD Net and went to Sinclair Broadcast Group. Wrestling/TaelerHendrix even drew attention to it, calling herself Ginerlicious and Delicious not long after self indentifying as "evil".
* Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} has at various times been ridiculed for his pale skin and or red hair, but it was WWE were it became a weekly thing, with Josh Matthews suspecting Sheamus was an albino, with Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} making his long awaited return and asking when Raw had been taken over by an evil Ronald [=McDonald=].
* [[Wrestling/TheaTrinidad Divina Fly]] has feuded with Taylor Made and her manager, April Hunter. She stomped on Made's {{groin|attack}} and said she was [[ToThePain putting out]] a fire crotch(Made was a fake red, Hunter a natural). In their first meeting Fly also attempt to stomp Wrestling/IvelisseVelez, a natural blonde who was dying her hair brown, insisting her hair had a "red tint to it"[[note]]this was a reference to Velez having a phoenix tattooed on her inner thigh, that earned her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjVsWKbMxhc an appearance]] on ''Tattoo Nightmares''[[/note]]
* Wrestling/WadeBarrett, when ''asked'' to single out another NXT rookie for ridicule, settled on Wrestling/HeathSlater, on the basis Slater was a ginger and that any good English man would have to single him out for it. Wrestling/JohnCena also dubbed Slater "that chick from Wendy's".
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'''[[CarpetOfVirility The hairy]]'''

Dense body hair, which is naturally [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chest_hair quite common]] in men, is treated ([[CarpetOfVirility sometimes]]) as something extremely repulsive and unhygienic that only gross individuals have. That is when it appears at all -- generally men's chests shown on television are utterly hairless. A hairy-backed man suffers this more than most; for some women it's any sort of body hair at all. Then again, most people react to this in real life and often wonder why such people don't wax or go the whole hog.

[[AC:{{Advertising}}]]
* An early-2000's ad for some phone service or whatever depicts an engaged couple who seem to be quite happy and in love up until the woman sees her fiance step out of the shower and reveal a generous pelt of back hair. We're apparently supposed to find it ''hilarious'' when she then uses her phone to [[JerkAss call off their wedding on the spot]].

[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* The village elder from ''Anime/HareGuu'', has a massive mound of chest hair that shakes like shrubbery when he moves. At one point Guu actually steals his chest hair and, much to his horror, ''wears it as an afro''.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* Played with in ''Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin''; the movie also revealed the REAL reason for waxing your anything. It's not to look good for anyone -- it's to entertain your friends, who are standing there watching.
* In the film version of ''Film/{{Stardust}}'', lovable hero Tristan has loads of chest hair, visible whenever he undoes his top button.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In the ''Franchise/{{Star Trek|ExpandedUniverse}}'' novel ''Enterprise: The First Adventure'', [=McCoy=] tells a high-ranking Klingon that mint juleps will put hair on your chest. The Klingon recoils, deeply disturbed by the notion, contributing to an ongoing diplomatic incident.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Hal in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' has to be de-haired before they go to the beach.

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* If you're a hairy [[ProfessionalWrestling pro wrestler]], either you're a savage like Wrestling/PamperoFirpo, an unhygienic boor like [[Wrestling/MattBloom A-Train]]... or Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, who only gets away with it because he's a living legend at this point. Otherwise, you have a career worth of "Shave your back! Shave your back!" chants to look forward to. Ask Miguel Perez.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' where Hayley takes up a career as a pole dancer and stripper satirizes American attitudes towards female bodily hair. When she takes a twirl on the pole and her wig falls off -- she has lost all her natural hair earlier in the episode -- the general attiude from watching men is one of disgust and repulsion. One man sums it up --
-->Eww, that's the only place they're meant to have hair!
** The same show, and its stablemate ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' also lampshade the ValuesDissonance between American and Europe on the desirability or otherwise of female bodily hair. [[HairyGirl European women]] who don't care or don't bother about shaving armpits, etc, are pilloried as somehow being unclean and certainly less desirable.[[note]]Europeans can find the perceived American mania for women to shave and depilate virtually everything to bejust as weird and un-natural[[/note]]

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'''Bald people'''

{{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s like ComicBook/LexLuthor, {{Straw Loser}}s like [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} George Costanza]], and let's not even start about Nazi skinheads. For some reason, bald black men typically aren't made fun of. Perhaps this is because black people are seen as much more likely to shave their heads as an intentional hairstyle (rather than male pattern baldness) than people of other races are, and are generally agreed to look better bald, perhaps due to the prejudice against African hair noted below. Cancer patients or anyone who has lost their hair due to an illness or its treatments are also exempt from being ridiculed (though the loss of their hair will still be portrayed as traumatic and shameful). This trope only seems to apply if a) you're not black, b) you've actually lost the ability to grow hair (particularly if your bald''ing'' instead of completely bald, and especially if you try to cover it up with combovers, [[DodgyToupee hairpieces]], [[NeverBareheaded hats]], etc.) and/or c) you're evil. See also BaldOfEvil.

[[AC:{{Advertising}}]]
* The guy who's using Brand X? Usually bald.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* Can I get a [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Graf von Orlok]]?
* Potter in ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' was a collection of villainous characteristics: bald, rich, and in a wheelchair.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Played with in Creator/RoaldDahl's ''Literature/{{Matilda}}''. Mr Wormwood declares that a thick head of hair is a sign of intelligence. When Matilda points out that Shakespeare was bald, Mr Wormwood displays his ignorance by asking "who?" Although Dahl's other novel, ''Literature/TheWitches'' plays it straight; the eponymous Witches are as bald as eggs.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Averted with Jean-Luc Picard in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Many people who try to deny they are turned off by bald people list him as an example, and for good reason.
* Also averted with Ted Hoffman in ''Series/MurderOne'' -- who comes off as the greatest and coolest defense lawyer ever, as well as being incorruptible and a loyal husband and father.
* And Walter Skinner of ''Series/TheXFiles''.
* Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''. Poor Colin Mochrie...
** In one game, Ryan makes a joke about Colin's baldness that naturally amuses the audience, but when Colin follows up with a joke about Ryan's nose, [[DudeNotFunny the audience reacts negatively]]. After the game, Colin notes "[[DoubleStandard Notice all the melon jokes, the bald jokes?]] [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin I make *one* nose joke, it's OOOOOOOHHH!]]". In fact, Colin is still the butt of bald jokes in the revival despite Wayne Brady sporting a shaved head now. It's brushed off due to Wayne being bald by choice (Wayne is black of course, but according to Wayne's hairline in the late 00s, his baldness is probably not entirely by choice either).
* John Kiester of ''Series/AlmostLive'' made this mockery of the "sniveling, put-upon loser" and HollywoodHomely as much a part of his comedy persona as being a UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} native.
* Averted by ''Series/{{Kojak}}'', although Telly Savalas' other roles after he went bald do fit this sub-trope.
* The Mitchell brothers from ''Series/EastEnders'' (especially Phil): bald, stupid, and villainous.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': Dorothy's ex-husband Stan is balding and every appearance he makes usually contains at least one bald joke and it isn't helped by the fact that he tends to wear toupees. He is a jerk who cheated on Dorothy multiple times and remained a huge thorn in her side even after their divorce, so it's hard to feel sympathy for him.

[[AC:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* By the 1990s, Wrestling/RandySavage had developed a bald spot on his crown. In 1996, the WWF started doing a series of horribly bad TakeThat skits aimed at Wrestling/{{WCW}} called "Billionare Ted's Wrasslin' War Room". In it were parody characters of Savage and Hogan [[SarcasmMode cleverly named]] "the Huckster" and the "Nacho Man". The Nacho Man mentions being "old and slow and ''bald''" and having barbers spray paint his head. According to Randy's brother Wrestling/LannyPoffo, Randy's hair loss was a [[BerserkButton sore spot]] of his and considering the emphasis they put on it, the WWF clearly knew it too. However, he's actually a subversion, since pretty much no one thought the skits were funny.
* In 2002, Wrestling/KurtAngle (who was both a {{Heel}} and rapidly losing his hair) had his head shaved after losing a Hair vs. Hair match at ''Judgment Day''. He reappeared on TV wearing a strapped-on DodgyToupee and everyone mocked him for it, including [[HypocriticalHumor other bald wrestlers]] such as Maven[[note]]Though he had a full head of hair, just shaved off, and is biracial.[[/note]] and Wrestling/HulkHogan[[note]]Himself also an aversion, Hogan tries to justify it by saying "Hulk Hogan lost his match to Mother Nature, dude!"[[/note]]. After [[FakeHairDrama having the toupee removed]] by Hogan and later defeating Hogan by submission at ''King of the Ring'', he gained back his confidence, ditched the toupee and embraced his baldness. Now he's considered an aversion.
* Previously known for being a LongHairedPrettyBoy in Wrestling/DragonGate, a company famous and infamous for it's wide variety of {{pretty boy}}s, Genki Horiguchi's sudden rapid hairline recession caused fans to start {{c|rowdchant}}hanting "Hage"[[note]]the Japanese word for "bald"[[/note]] at him. This lead to Horiguchi striking back by dubbing himself the "[[BaldOfEvil Hage Of Evil]]".
* Wrestling/RingOfHonor Top Prospect, later champion, Matt Taven certainly thought bald people were an acceptable target, saying Wrestling/ChristopherDaniels had insulted {{God}} when he shaved his head.

[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* As a RunningGag in videos by WebVideo/MatthewSantoro, Matthew is often made fun of for being bald, [[SelfDeprecation which is usually done by himself]].
* LetsPlay/BlastphamousHD aka. Maurice Barnett, who went bald in his teens, is a rare black example. But like Santoro, most of the mocking is done by Maurice himself, though his fans do have fun joking about it, calling him "black Mr. Clean" (when he wears white shirts) and "Milk Dud".

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''-verse, where hair growth seems to explicitly equal success. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E2SimpsonAndDelilah Simpson and Delilah]]", Homer gets promoted through the roof immediately after his hair starts growing back after he discovers a wondrous hair growth product. Once it fell out again, he ends up back in his old position.
* King Neptune in ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'' is ridculed for being bald and hides it with his crown. The crown was stolen and you can guess how well that went down.

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'''Curly-Haired People'''

This one probably has its roots in racism. Afro-textured hair has the most [[CurlyHairIsUgly stigma]] attached to and it's often referred to as "nappy" hair. Characters with QuirkyCurls are usually played up as comic relief and rarely are considered attractive. Averted with EightiesHair, RegalRinglets, and OjouRinglets.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* Creator/ChrisRock's film ''Good Hair'' examines how Afro-textured hair is negatively portrayed in the media, and how many women with it use damaging hair relaxers and products to straighten it.
** Naomi Campbell has recently lost part of her hair because of years of hair relaxers.
** Ditto for Music/MichaelJackson, which is likely why he started wearing wigs in his later years (though the Pepsi incident also had something to do with it.)

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* On British BBC drama ''Grandma's House'', Adam calls Simon a "natural pube-head".

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* Salina de la Renta hates the "curly ugly shit" growing out of the heads of Sofia Castillo, Avery Taylor and Amber Nova. However, de la Renta refuses to share her opinion on "Big Swole" Aerial Monroe, who can and will kick her ass(or send a member of her "[[PowerStable Swole Family]]" to do it for her).
* Aerial Monroe's muscles and famed sensitivity concerning her hair didn't save her from Priscilla Kelly on the WWN family shows. There was an unintentional subversion in SHINE, the [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor only]] WWN show where Kelly was [[DesignatedHero supposed to be]] a baby {{face}} at the time. Kelly went so far as to rub Monroe's hair in her crotch specifically after Monroe warned Kelly not to touch it. [[RootingForTheEmpire The fans took Monroe's side]] and she became one of SHINE's top faces until Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling signed her.

'''Speech Impediments'''

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* Creator/EricIdle plays a stutterer in ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', who in a later scene is apparently just fooling everyone, for we see him have a casual conversation with a jailer.
* Creator/MichaelPalin played a comical stutterer in ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'', which proved mildly controversial. But he could silence the criticism as his own father was a stutterer, thus he knew how to accurately portray the condition.
* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' features the villain torturing a stutterer, though the villain is far too nasty to be acceptable.
* ''Film/BillyMadison'', surprisingly, subverts this when Billy mocks a boy's stuttering in class. Not only is the audience expected to see it as an example of Billy's Jerkass nature (''none'' of the other kids laugh at it), but the teacher also immediately drags him out by the ear and gives him a very stern ass-chewing for it.
* The public defender in ''Film/MyCousinVinny'' stutters through his opening statement, and is promptly dropped as legal counsel in favor of the title character. (Though it should be clarified that the public defender was dropped mostly because he was a sucky lawyer, while Vinny, despite his inexperience, was able to discredit the first witness with simple logic).

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* Tara in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was mocked only by the evil-doers for her stutter.
* Barry Kripkie in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' asking Siri for restaurant recommendations went exactly as you expect.

[[AC:Professional Wrestling]]
* WWE's brilliant idea for a Matt Morgan run as a singles' wrestler after the end of his TagTeam with Nathan Jones was to suddenly make him a sutterer.
->"[[CheapHeat You peoepeopeople suck!]]"
* Jake Hager/Jake Strong/Wrestling/JackSwagger is a "[[DesignatedVillain natural heel]]" due to his noticeable lisp instantly turning crowds against him when he tries to cut promos.

[[AC:{{Theatre}}]]
* This is an old one, having been used by George Feydeaux in the 1900 French comedy "A Flea in her Ear"

[[AC:WebAnimation]]
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''
** Homestah Wunnah's impediment seems to be presented as part of his general [[TheDitz Ditziness]], but the only person who ever makes fun of him for it is Strong Bad, who makes fun of Homestar for ''everything''.
** Then there's Coach Z, who sports a strong accent that sounds like nothing on Earth. The cartoon [[https://homestarrunner.com/toons/a-jorb-well-done "A Jorb Well Done"]] is devoted to the cast's attempts to get Coach Z to pronounce "job" correctly. Though in [[https://homestarrunner.com/toons/3-times-halloween-funjob "3 Times Halloween Funjob"]], it's implied that, for some incomprehensible reason, Z is deliberately exaggerating his accent:
--->'''Coach Z:''' Track or Trort!\\
'''Bubs:''' C'mon, man.\\
'''Coach Z:''' Okay, Trick or Treat.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* Mush-mouth from ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids''; as the name implies, he mumbles his words to the point of being TheUnintelligible.
* [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Elmer Fudd]], WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, and Sylvester the Cat are played with examples. All of them are frequently the butt of jokes and all except Porky are portrayed as idiots, but it is never suggested that this is in any way related to their speech impediments.
* Subverted with Keswick from ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'', who speaks with a stutter but it isn't made the butt of jokes. He's also recognized as a supergenius by both heroes and villains, with [[FunWithAcronyms DOOM]] kidnapping him to help them.

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'''Men'''

Male characters are often portrayed as [[UselessBoyfriend useless]], [[WomenAreWiser incompetent]], [[MenAreTheExpendableGender expendable]], [[HighHeelFaceTurn evil]], or [[ButtMonkey made to suffer]]. But even when it's not quite that explicit, male characters that are mocked, victimized or seriously flawed are often more readily accepted than female ones, and are more likely to be PlayedForLaughs.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Creator/LFrankBaum was from a feminist family and it shows in his ''Literature/LandOfOz''. For example, there are many monarchs and leaders of both genders in the books, but the female ones are generally sensible and capable, while the male ones are often more buffoonish.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', created by Creator/JossWhedon, is one of the best-known Western examples. In a [[WorldOfActionGirls world of powerful, ass-kicking women]], the role of ButtMonkey is usually played by male characters, especially Xander. With only a few exceptions, male characters that are particularly good at fighting or magic tend to be villains. In other words: male, powerful, good -- pick any two.
* A great many DomCom shows (''Series/HomeImprovement'', ''Series/EverybodyLovesRaymond'', etc) feature a BumblingDad with a [[WomenAreWiser much more sensible and stable wife]].
* Plenty of examples of DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale could fall under this, but the whole concept gets {{Deconstructed|Trope}} on ''Series/WhatWouldYouDo''. When a man abuses a woman, so many people step in right away. But flip the situation and almost everyone, including an off-duty cop, just passes them by (one woman actually cheers the abuser on while doing so). When asked why, they just assumed the victim had it coming. And, yeah, they would have intervened had the victim been a woman.

[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' takes this to the extreme with the two leads: a girl who "can do anything" and a boy who [[ButtMonkey is treated as an all-around loser for whom things never go right]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', with its mostly female main cast, intentionally shows that there are so many different ways to be a girl, while TheOneGuy serves as the series' ButtMonkey and is often not even treated like a proper member of the group.

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'''"Bad" Women'''

Yes, women can still get this treatment -- but more specifically, the [[MadonnaWhoreComplex "wrong kind"]] of women are the ones that get it. Women who [[SlutShaming have too much sex]] (or even ''accused'' of doing so), who [[HystericalWoman can't control their emotions]], or don't care for womanly things like [[IceQueen wanting a man]], [[NotWantingKidsIsWeird having babies]] or [[MaternallyChallenged not knowing how to raise kids]] are portrayed as misguided at best.

[[AC:Literature]]
* ''Literature/{{Disclosure}}'' is about an evil woman in an executive position who [[SleepingTheirWayToTheTop gained her position by having sex with powerful men]] and then uses a FalseRapeAccusation against the protagonist. It’s noted that the villain was also assigned her position over a much more qualified (but less sexually-attractive) woman.

[[AC:Live-Action Film]]
* Remember that hilarious scene in ''Film/{{Airplane}}''? The one where the woman loses control and there’s a long line waiting to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slap her]]? While slapping is a bit taboo these days, ridiculing these sorts of women or mocking them is still frequent.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'' has an entire segment about its main heroine having no desire for children, and being forced to take care of her nephews because of her lack of motherly instincts.
* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', which is built around various horror tropes, specifically points out how prevalent [[SexSignalsDeath "the Slut" character being killed]] is.

[[AC:Live-Action TV]]
* The longest-running subplot in ''Series/FamilyMatters'' involves the [[BlackAndNerdy nerdy Steve Urkel]] trying to [[DefrostingIceQueen gain the affections]] of his crush, Laura. One of his oft-repeated lines, whenever [[GiveGeeksAChance Laura shows him any interest]] is [[RejectionAffection "I'm wearing you down, baby..."]].

[[AC:Videogames]]
* There’s an entire quest line in ''Videogame/{{Skyrim}}'' which is about shaming a woman named Haelga for having a lot of sexual partners. While there are other ways to complete the quest, there is no way to tell off the woman who is SlutShaming her, and Haelga states that she has to do it in secret, because sex is the primary way of worshipping [[LoveGoddess her goddess]].

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'''Humans, when [[PunyEarthlings compared to other intelligent races]]'''

Every IntellectualAnimal and SufficientlyAdvancedAlien knows that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.

[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' had an episode where Dick learns about tolerance and explains at the end that no one is "better" than anyone else, just different. The rest of the aliens burst out laughing at the idea that they're no better than humans.
* And before this was the SNL skit-turned-film ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'', where the titular family laughed at such silly notions as "Humans to the moon". Whether they were laughing at the idea of [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories humans reaching the moon]] or that they'd ''only'' gotten as far as the moon is unclear.

[[AC:VideoGames]]
* In the trailer for ''Videogame/{{Portal 2}}'''s multiplayer campaign, [=GLaDOS=] says, "These next tests requires co-operation. Consequently, they have never been solved by a human".
** This idea is elaborated in the promotional short "Bot Trust." The clip starts with a little animation of two humans entering a test chamber; one [[ComedicSociopathy quickly shoves the other into a fire pit for no apparent reason.]] [[UnreliableNarrator The narrator]] concludes that "Our data clearly shows that humans cannot be trusted. The answer? Robots!" Cue the montage of the two co-op robots, Atlas and P-Body, working together through "a regimen of trust exercises." At the end the narrator announces that these "inspiring artificial bonds" will be put to the test... and cuts to P-body [[RunningGag shoving Atlas into a fire pit for no apparent reason.]] What did this accomplish? The robots gave them a whole six extra seconds of cooperation. [[WellDoneSonGuy Good job robots.]]

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'''Products of incest'''

Yes, inbreeding does increase the odds of recessive alleles doubling up in the offspring. But demonization of incest tends to spill over onto any resulting next generation, creating an expectation that such children will ''invariably'' be mentally or physically impaired, if not a CannibalClan or a RoyallyScrewedUp lineage in the making.

[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* A major aversion in ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''. [[spoiler: Too bad it's the pedophile, incest-minded father-grandfather that wins]].
* Let's not forget ''Film/{{Deliverance}}''.

[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''The Bad Place'' by Creator/DeanKoontz, the BigBad and his siblings are the result of multiple generations of incest. Their mother [[spoiler: was a hermaphrodite who [[{{Squick}} fertilized herself]] to produce them]]. Somehow this gave them all supernatural powers.
* Most of the purebloods in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' are inbred.
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-->'''She:''' No, I had [[ComicallyMissingThePoint not heard about this]].
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Cast as being in the seat of white privilege (which means, of course, that they're Catholic Celts who are considered [=WASPs=]), and still obsessed with their heritage and worse days that may or may not have existed. Ironically, this opens the door to the old Nash stereotypes like untenably large families, alcoholism, and elaborate wakes, since rather than even [[ModernMinstrelsy making fun of the stereotypes]], it's making fun of the self-serving reification of the stereotypes.

Much like the Irish, they are portrayed as drunk and violent, with emphasis on {{violent|Glaswegian}}. Expect anyone from Scotland to use weird insults, insist on wearing kilts, play bagpipes, and to be very aggressive. Like their southern neighbor, they will sometimes appear in works set in the 1800s as EvilColonists. If they're portrayed positively, expect them to be loud, and your typical ProudWarriorRaceGuy. And they will be depicted as being stingy misers who would rather die than pay a dime. Not to mention being [[ScotIreland mistaken for Irish]].

'''The British, specifically the English and Welsh'''

Much like the Irish, they are portrayed as drunk and violent, with emphasis on {{violent|Glaswegian}}. Expect anyone from Scotland to use weird insults, insist on wearing kilts, play bagpipes, and to be very aggressive. If they're portrayed positively, expect them to be loud, and your typical ProudWarriorRaceGuy. And they will be depicted as being stingy misers who would rather die than pay a dime. Not to mention being [[ScotIreland mistaken for Irish]].

'''The British (the English and Welsh - to be specific)'''

Anti-British and anti-English sentiment tends to be tied to UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire and its post-colonial legacy. [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Ireland]], France, Russia and [[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar Argentina]] have longer traditions of Anglophobia, but more recently the 2016 Brexit campaign and the UK's subsequent breakaway from the European Union in 2020 has enflamed some tensions within the continent. Once common within American media (owing to two wars in 1776 and 1812, and a period of cold relations in the early 1800s), it's [[DeadHorseTrope very much old hat nowadays]]; a 2017 poll by the BBC World Service found Americans have some of the strongest positive opinion towards the British of any nationality. [[MemeticMutation Online]] however, Brits have often been mocked for their vocabulary, dialect, [[BritishTeeth horrible-looking teeth]], and unappealing food.

'''The British'''

* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', which is built around various horror tropes, specifically points out how prevalent [[DeathBySex “the Slut” character being killed]] is.

* Priscilla Kelly, one of the stars of the aforementioned ''My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding'' entered the professional wrestling business with her baggage from the show but was otherwise portrayed as an inquisitive, sexually curious and ambitious woman who fell in with some [[PowerStable bad crowds]]. However, in EVOLVE she basically became a [[HornyDevils succubus]] out to [[TheCorrupter control]] and [[GayBravado mo]]le[[AllWomenAreLustful st]] anything that moves, which once again had people questioning if that was really the impression people should be getting. Her functional HeelFaceTurn in SHINE(she was always "[[DesignatedHero supposed]]" to be a face in that promotion) sought to address that she wasn't trying to make Romani or any other race look bad.

* Deconstructed in Toeckey Jones' book ''Go Well, Stay Well'', about a white South African teenage girl who feels morally superior to Boers because she's Anglo-Saxon. She maintains this image for a while, even after she starts dating a non-racist Boer boy.

* Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} has at various times been ridiculed for his pale skin and or red hair, but it was WWE were it became a weekly thing, with Josh Matthews suspecting Sheamus was an albino, with Wrestling/{{Edge}} making his long awaited return and asking when Raw had been taken over by an evil Ronald [=McDonald=].

** Some parts of the song reference...[[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate stereotypes]] about Roma people:

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In the story Recap/AsterixAndTheGoths the Goths (Germans) are depicted as villains. The story was drawn in the early 1960s, when anti-German sentiments were still vivid in Europe. Albert Uderzo, creator of the comic strip, [[OldShame has expressed regret over these portrayals]] and in later stories the Germans are depicted in a far more sympathetic light.

* ''Rules of Engagement'': In this movie, American Marines open fire on unarmed Yemeni civilians at the American embassy in Sana'a (Samuel L. Jackson gives the order to "Waste the mother#@&%ers!"), killing women and children, and [[RashomonStyle the story turns to finding out whether Jackson's recollection was true]]. In the end, though, it turns out that the civilians were no better than terrorists themselves -- they all, even a four-year-old girl, fired on the Marines first! [[UnfortunateImplications So the whole movie is a justification for killing Arab civilians, even women and kids -- because they're not actually innocent civilians, they're terrorists too.]]

* The 2006 documentary ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel_Bad_Arabs Reel Bad Arabs]]'' is an in-depth look at the stereotyping of Arabs and other Middle Eastern peoples, such as Iranians (see below), in mainstream media, particularly films, and all the UnfortunateImplications coming from it. It makes the point that such stereotyping is, in fact, extremely harmful.

* Subverted, or maybe inverted with ''Film/{{District 9}}''. While it's about an alien version of apartheid, all of South Africa is prejudiced against the extraterrestrials. The hero is also an Afrikaner who pulls a HeelFaceTurn. The movie's [[WordOfGod not about apartheid]]. It's actually about South African immigration. For the most part this trope is played straight, since we're talking about the main Afrikaaners in the movie, most of whom are [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Evil Businessmen]], [[EvilGenius Sadistic Scientists]], and [[SociopathicSoldier Gun-Toting Maniac Racists]]. But a careful bit of attention to the in-story "logic" behind the Nigerian gangsters and you uncover several UnfortunateImplications. For instance, if Prawns represent sympathetic immigrants and a good many immigrants in the country are Nigerian but your Nigerians are AlwaysChaoticEvil then you're entering ugly territory.

This one probably has its roots in racism. Afro-textured hair has the most [[CurlyHairIsUgly stigma]] attached to and it's often referred to as [[UnfortunateImplications "nappy"]] hair. Characters with QuirkyCurls are usually played up as comic relief and rarely are considered attractive. Averted with EightiesHair, RegalRinglets, and OjouRinglets.

* In the USWA Wrestling/TheNationOfDomination was mostly made up of white men who were trying to impress their black friends. This simple joke was far too complicated for the WWF, who made them into a [[AngryBlackMan straight riff of the NOI]] while still having [[TheSlacker a small number of white men do all their work for them]].

Yes, women can still get this treatment -- but more specifically, the [[MadonnaWhoreComplex “wrong kind”]] of women are the ones that get it. Women who [[SlutShaming have too much sex]] (or even ‘’accused’’ of doing so), who [[HystericalWoman can’t control their emotions]], or don’t care for womanly things like [[IceQueen wanting a man]], [[NotWantingKidsIsWeird having babies]] or [[MaternallyChallenged not knowing how to raise kids]] are portrayed as misguided at best.

* Creator/SachaBaronCohen, who is Jewish, plays an anti-Semitic character, Borat. The point of the shtick is to make fun of anti-Semitism, not Jews, but it's debatable how much a non-Jewish comedian could have gotten away with routines like "Throw the Jew Down the Well."
** It's debatable how well Sasha Baron Cohen got away with it as well. Most found the anti-Semitic segments incredibly uncomfortable, which was arguably the point, but many felt they were too raw even for self mockery.

** ''Literature/20000LeaguesUnderTheSea''': The original plot revealed that Captain Nemo was a Pole whose family had been killed by the Russians. Verne's editor, not wishing to anger the Russian readership (as the countries were allied at the time), persuaded him to give him a different nationality, culminating in ''Literature/TheMysteriousIsland'' revealing Nemo was actually an Indian prince whose family was killed by the British, France and Britain deeming each other AcceptableTargets being a centuries-long tradition.

Anti-British and anti-English sentiment tends to be tied to UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire and its post-colonial legacy. [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Ireland]], France, Russia and [[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar Argentina]] have longer traditions of Anglophobia, but more recently the 2016 Brexit campaign and the UK's subsequent breakaway from the European Union in 2020 has enflamed some tensions within the continent. Once common within American media (owing to two wars in 1776 and 1812, and a period of cold relations in the early 1800s), it's [[DeadHorseTrope very much old hat nowadays]]; a 2017 poll by the BBC World Service found Americans have some of the strongest positive opinion towards the British of any nationality. [[MemeticMutation Online however, Brits have often been mocked for their vocabulary, dialect, [[BritishTeeth horrible-looking teeth]], and unappealing food.]]

Anti-British and anti-English sentiment tends to be tied to UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire and its post-colonial legacy. [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles Ireland]], France, Russia and [[UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar Argentina]] have longer traditions of Anglophobia, but more recently the 2016 Brexit campaign and the UK's subsequent breakaway from the European Union in 2020 has enflamed some tensions within the continent. Once common within American media (owing to two wars in 1776 and 1812, and a period of cold relations in the early 1800s), it's [[DeadHorseTrope very much old hat nowadays]]; a 2017 poll by the BBC World Service found Americans have some of the strongest positive opinion towards the British of any nationality. [[EvilBrit Brits remain the go-to nationality for the clever and cultured supervillain though]].

* ''VideoGame/TombRaider'': Pierre is a sleazy French-accented CowardlyBoss who ambushes Lara several times.

* Arrow Club, one of many {{gang|bangers}}ster themed {{power stable}}s, in this cased based on [[RippedFromTheHeadlines The Wild Boys]], and their adeptness for causing ''just'' enough mayhem ''not'' to get charges that would result in being sent to prison, or [[LighterAndSofter suspension from wrestling promotions in this case]].[[/note]].

'''Speach Impediments'''

* Barry Kripkie in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' him asking Siri for restaurant recommendations went exactly as you expect.

A subset of AcceptableTargets. Remember that these aren't always ethnic in the literal sense we're used to -- they just refer to groups who are targeted for their physical appearance or for having inborn traits that they can't really change. Foreign/unusual accents and dialects are also typically considered speech impediments, and therefore become subjects of mockery much like AcceptableHardLuckTargets.

{{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s like ComicBook/LexLuthor, {{Straw Loser}}s like [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} George Costanza]], and let's not even start about Nazi skinheads. For some reason, bald black men typically aren't made fun of, even if they're not a BaldBlackLeaderGuy. Perhaps this is because blacks are seen as much more likely to shave their heads as an intentional hairstyle (rather than male pattern baldness) than people of other races are, and are generally agreed to look better bald, perhaps due to the prejudice against African hair noted below. Cancer patients or anyone who has lost their hair due to an illness or its treatments are also exempt from being ridiculed (though the loss of their hair will still be portrayed as traumatic and shameful). This trope only seems to apply if a) you're not black, b) you've actually lost the ability to grow hair (particularly if your bald''ing'' instead of completely bald, and especially if you try to cover it up with combovers, [[DodgyToupee hairpieces]], [[NeverBareheaded hats]], etc.) and/or c) you're evil. See also BaldOfEvil.

Today, stereotypes of Italians come in two main flavors. Often, they are portrayed as [[HairTriggerTemper angry]], [[AngryFistShake violent]], and [[BookDumb not bright]], possibly with some connection to [[TheMafia the mob]]. If they're portrayed in a *slightly* more positive light, they are urbane, suave, and [[ReallyGetsAround ready to make moves]] on [[SerialHomewrecker someone's romantic partner]]. Regardless of the flavor encountered, these characters are usually loud and extroverted, use wild hand gestures, and have a mustache more often than not.

* In fact, a *lot* of Gothic fiction depicts Italians as "other," going all the way back to Horace Walpole's 'Literature/{{The Castle of Otranto}}'', which Walpole originally claimed to be an Italian tale he'd found and translated... just in case his readership didn't like the novel he wrote.

Today, stereotypes of Italians come in two main flavors. Often, they are portrayed as [[HairTriggerTemper angry]], [[AngryFistShake violent]], and [[BookDumb not bright]], possibly with some connection to [[TheMafia the mob]]. If they're portrayed in a *slightly* more positive light, they are urbane, suave, and [[ReallyGetsAround ready to make moves]] on someone's romantic partner. Regardless of the flavor encountered, these characters are usually loud and extroverted, use wild hand gestures, and have a mustache more often than not.

* In fact, a *lot* of Gothic fiction depicts Italians as "other," going all the way back to Horace Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto', which Walpole originally claimed to be a tale translated from Italian... just in case his readership didn't like the novel.

Today, stereotypes of Italians come in two main flavors. Often, they are portrayed as [[HairTriggerTemper angry]], [[AngryFistShake violent]], and simple, possibly with some connection to [[TheMafia the mob]]. If they're portrayed in a *slightly* more positive light, they are urbane, suave, and [[ReallyGetsAround ready to make moves]] on someone's romantic partner. Regardless of the flavor encountered, these characters are usually loud and extroverted, use wild hand gestures, and have a mustache more often than not.

Today, stereotypes of Italians come in two main flavors. Often, they are portrayed as angry, violent, and simple, possibly with some connection to [[TheMafia the mob]]. If they're portrayed in a *slightly* more positive light, they are urbane, suave, and [[ReallyGetsAround ready to make moves]] on someone's romantic partner. Regardless of the flavor encountered, these characters are usually loud and extroverted, use wild hand gestures, and have a mustache more often than not.